Modern life-saving devices coming to the Central Valley with $25K grant

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Sierra Kings Health Care District is awarding a $25,000 assistance to the Sequoia Safety Council. The wealth volition spell to purchasing 2 life-saving thorax compression devices.

The Lifeline ARM compression instrumentality is simply a peculiar exertion that mimics the enactment of CPR.

“These devices volition assistance paramedics successful the tract bash accordant thorax compressions during cardiac apprehension portion they transport patients to the hospital,” General manager for The Sequoia Safety Council, Russ Richardson said.

The devices typically tally astir $15,000.

 Richardson says the section is grateful to yet person entree to specified technology.

“For a agrarian agency, the outgo of these devices is astronomical. So, it's typically thing we would emotion to have, but we don't person the fund for,” helium said.

Which is wherever the Sierra Kings Health Care District steps in.

“We're trying to bring the best, astir cutting-edge prime enhancements to the area, and this is conscionable 1 illustration of that," CEO of the Sierra Kings Health Care District, Chinayera Black Hardman said.

She says that this peculiar assistance stood retired from the agency’s mean absorption area, but she pushed for backing anyway.

“I took it to my committee and said it's not needfully accordant with our 3 precedence areas, but it's important to the community,” said Hardman.

The Sequoia Safety Council covers a ample geographic area. Oftentimes, effect times tin beryllium up to an hour, with transport clip to the infirmary being conscionable arsenic long.

While successful the field, paramedics alternate performing CPR connected a diligent successful two-minute intervals.

A task Richardson says tin beryllium taxing.

“They person to halt immoderate task they're doing and beryllium prepared to instrumentality implicit and CPR due to the fact that the biggest happening is you don't privation to interrupt the thorax compressions,” Richardson said.

The ARM instrumentality helps alleviate the paramedic unit and offers much accordant compressions, providing much businesslike attraction to the community.

Due to manufacturing upgrades, the devices are expected to get astatine the presumption successful astir 2 months.