LUCAS ® 2 CHEST COMPRESSION SYSTEM CASE STUDY What started as a normal working day in suburban Melbourne for Vanessa, a 41-year-old mother of two, suddenly became a lengthy battle for her life. While sitting on her couch at home Vanessa started feeling chest pains and collapsed. For- tunately, her mother was with her and remembered seeing the Australian Heart Foundation’s “Warning Signs” advertisement and recognized the symptoms of a heart attack. A call to ‘Triple 0’ had Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) paramedics at the house within minutes. She arrested soon after the paramedics arrived, but was successfully defibrillated with a single shock and was stabilized for the journey to Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. During transportation, the ECG data was transmitt

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