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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:22:04 +0200
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The robot resuscitator
by JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail 10:38am 7th September 2005

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Automatic CPR machine

Rise of the robot: But this one could save lives
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An Automatic resuscitator that gives life-saving treatment to heart
attack victims has been developed. The mechanical device delivers
consistent, sustained chest compressions that help restore the blood
flow to the heart.

It helps ambulance paramedics by taking over the physical hands-on work
of CPR - the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation familiar to viewers of
Casualty and ER - leaving them free to provide other treatments.

Staffordshire Ambulance NHS Trust has become the first to fully equip
around 100 ambulances and fast response cars with the device. In only 20
seconds, the machine can be ready to perform compressions on a sick
patient, which maximises their chances of survival.

Almost 260,000 Britons have a heart attack each year and in about 30 per
cent of cases the patient dies before reaching hospital.

The first few minutes after an attack are crucial. If the heart stops
and does not start beating again instantly, the heart and the brain will
be damaged because of lack of oxygen. Within 20 minutes, there is no
chance of successful revival.

In manual CPR, a paramedic uses their hands to compress a patient's
chest regularly to retain some circulation before a defibrillator shocks
the heart back to a normal rhythm.

With a portable chest compressor, paramedics can lift the patient on to
a back plate, strap on the chest pump and flick a switch to start 100
compressions a minute.

Saving lives

It can be used on the ground, in a bed or on a stretcher in the
ambulance while it is moving. The ?6,000 device - known as the LUCAS CPR
system - is powered by compressed oxygen or air and can keep going as
long as is necessary.

Professor Douglas Chamberlain, who works in resuscitation medicine at
Cardiff University, said there were some "remarkable cases" in which the
machine had "very likely" saved lives.

He said: "In these cases resuscitation attempts have continued for over
an hour and the patient was dependent on the LUCAS for any sort of blood
flow while coronary arteries were unblocked.

"It's extremely unlikely that manual compression could have been kept up
for so long, or during transportation in an ambulance and into the
hospital.

"Manual CPR is not easy. It's often done too slowly or too quickly. When
delivered with the right level of force, it can injure the rescuer."

A new clot-dissolving drug is saving more lives than existing treatment
and costs less, researchers claim. A study shows it cuts death rates by
17 per cent among those admitted to hospital with mild heart attacks and
angina.

Such patients are prone to life-threatening bleeds but the drug, called
fondaparinux, halves the number of bleeds and is safer than current
therapy.

Specialists said it was a major advance. Maker GlaxoSmithKline hopes to
get the drug approved for heart patients within a year.

This story first appeared in the . For more great stories like this, buy
the Daily Mail every day.


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