Portable CPR machine donated to North Shore Rescue
Posted October 24, 2015 8:16 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Things are getting a little safer on the local mountains thanks to a new piece of technology. North Shore Rescue has been given a portable CPR machine to help people on trouble on the trails.
The battery-operated AutoPulse CPR machine can give chest compressions to someone for 45 minutes while on the move.
Mike Danks with NSR says they are the first team in Canada to get one and calls it a game changer. “Because what it allows us to do is do very good CPR in flight, in a stretcher or at the end of a long line where typically we just wouldn’t be able to do it.”
Danks says it’s important since they are seeing more and more cardiac arrests on the trails. “It’s not something that happens all the time but when it does happen this is the device that you want to have there. The profusion that this device gets is around 85 per cent, which is much much higher than standard CP
He notes this along with last month’s infrared camera donation will help the entire North Shore, and adds the hundreds of rescues they had to do this summer helped publicize their needs.
