WATCH: This gadget performs automated chest compressions when manual CPR is not possible 🚑 | In The Know Innovation

Everyone should know some basic CPR - including chest compression. But when a patient needs chest compression and has other traumas, paramedics can be stretched. The Lucas 3 device maintains automatic chest compression, letting paramedics multitask. | Interesting Engineering

Paramedic Steve talks us through the benefits of the Mechanical Chest Compression Device - a safe and practical way of continuing CPR enroute to hospital and freeing up paramedics to do other lifesaving interventions. We’re at the Royal International Convention Centre at the Ekka all week. Drop by and check out our display! | Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS)

LUCAS 3 Training All this week SWFD personnel have been conducting hands-on training with the Stryker Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System (LUCAS 3) mechanical chest compression device. The LUCAS3 is an easy-to-use mechanical chest compression device that will help SWFD personnel deliver high-quality, guidelines-consistent chest compressions to sudden cardiac arrest patients; in the field, on the move and in the hospital. Studies show that continuous chest compressions are a critical co