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REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A brace of machines that tin springiness patients thorax compressions are present helping to prevention lives successful eastbound Fresno County.
A $25,000 assistance from Sierra Kings Health Care District allowed the Sequoia Safety Council to acquisition 2 Lifeline ARM Automated Chest Compression Devices. According to Sierra Kings, the machines tin supply thorax compressions to a diligent for an extended time.
Health officials accidental a quality would person to power retired with different rescuer each 2 minutes - whereas the instrumentality tin support going without having to halt and power to another.
The ARM device, which costs astir $12,500, is already being utilized successful larger work areas specified arsenic Fresno and Clovis.
“With this grant, residents of Reedley, Parlier, and foothill communities volition besides present person entree to 2 of these life-saving devices successful cases of emergency”, said Sierra Kings Vice Chair Bruce Hunter.
According to the Sequoia Safety Council, the radical received implicit 10,000 calls for work successful 2023 successful the Reedley, Parlier, and foothill areas. Of these calls, astir 100 were cardiac arrests.
