hey I'm Lieutenant Garcia and welcome to what's on the truck Tuesday today we're going to talk about the Lucas so the Lucas device is a critical piece of medical equipment that's going to be utilized once we've identified that the patient is in a lethal cardiac Rhythm or rhythms the Lucas comes in a soft carrying case you can utilize it as a backpack or a carrying case now once you've slid the back plate underneath the patient we're ready to secure the Lucas onto the patient and once the Lucas is secure to the patient we're going to go ahead and select play and let it perform the automatic chest compressions for us now while running the Lucas device you have an option to select 30 to2 without an advanced Airway and then once you secure an advanced Airway you simply select continuous CPR minimizing interruptions the Lucas helps us deliver high quality chest compressions while minimizing interruptions during the patient transport this allows us to focus on other critical interventions while reducing fatigue on our Personnel CPR is a great skill to know you never know when you may have to save a life one day visit 9911 cpr.org to sign up for a class today