CUMMING - The Forsyth County Fire Department will be adding nine more CPR machines to its cache of tools.
The devices are used when firefighters respond to cases of cardiac arrest. They are battery powered and straddle the chest of a patient while performing perfect cardiac compressions. The use of the device compliments AEDs and cardiac monitors and allows for uninterrupted CPR during patient treatment and transport to a hospital. The fire department currently has seven of the machines and this purchase will allow for the placement of one on every front-line fire apparatus in the county.
Funding for the purchase of the devices comes from a check presented to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners recentlyby Dewey White. That $135,000 check was given to the Fire Department to satisfy a decades-old zoning condition.
