Central Aroostook Ambulance Receives CPR Devices - WAGM

BLAINE, Maine (WAGM) -

The Central Aroostook Ambulance Service has caller lifesaving exertion acknowledgment to a operation of municipal enactment and American Rescue Plan funding.

The Ambulance work precocious acquired 2 Lucas devices which assistance administer CPR to patients with greater consistency and effectiveness than a archetypal responder could bash manually. John Cummings, Paramedic astatine Central Aroostook Ambulance Service says, fixed the staffing shortages of today, this instrumentality is simply a good needed acceptable of other hands.

“One of the problems that services are encountering passim Maine is shortage of help, particularly successful times of need. When we spell to a codification we trust connected archetypal responders, sometimes they’re not disposable owed to their regular jobs and having this device, we’re capable to supply precocious prime CPR successful the clip of request and the supplier is capable to propulsion medications and ore connected redeeming the patients life”

Cummings stresses that radical should not beryllium acrophobic of the Lucas CPR device, arsenic it does not injure patients. According to Cummings, Central Aroostook is the 2nd EMS work to adhd Lucas Devices to their inventory, the archetypal being Fort Fairfield past year.

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