Kennewick Fire Department prepares to implement hands-free CPR device - YakTriNews KAPP-KVEW

KENNEWICK, Wash. — On a drizzly afternoon, Kennewick Firefighter EMT’s are acceptable for immoderate the time brings them.

But successful their mean time, they’re practicing.

“We’re grooming each accidental that we person to beryllium the champion we tin be,” KFD Medical Officer Scott McLellan said.

On Wednesday, crews practiced with a new, hands-free CPR machine.

“Very innovative, adjuvant device,” McLellan said.

After researching and weighing their options, McLellan said they landed connected the LUCAS device. KFD is preparing to instrumentality 2 of them earlier Christmas.

“The mode that it helps america is it really performs the thorax compression. It volition instrumentality a unit subordinate distant from having to bash that task benignant of conscionable calms the full country down it performs a precise accordant compression,” helium explained.

McLellan said it’ll besides support crews harmless arsenic the ambulance rushes to the infirmary during an emergency.

“And it besides gives a batch much flexibility arsenic acold arsenic moving our cardiac apprehension patients due to the fact that it tin execute the compressions portion we’re moving the victim,” helium said.

McLellan explained KFD responded to astatine slightest 100 cardiac apprehension calls each year. That fig increases region-wide. McLellan said cardiac wellness and endurance rates person travel to the forefront of determination occurrence and EMS focus.

“You cognize we’re deploying AED’s successful Richland, we’re deploying mechanical CPR devices present successful Kennewick and we conscionable privation to springiness our citizens the champion accidental for subsister if they bash spell into cardiac arrest,” helium said.

Crews astatine presumption 5 went done a cardiac apprehension script to signifier with LUCAS; perfecting switching from hands-on CPR to the instrumentality flawlessly.

“Every infinitesimal their accidental of endurance drops 10 percent, truthful we request to get determination speedy and we request to execute precise very bully compressions truthful we tin reperfuse their assemblage and we are their bosom until it restarts connected its ain truthful we request to get determination speedy and we request to beryllium truly bully astatine it.”

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