Certified a LUCAS CPR machine as overdose treatment

The FY2026 report, page 14, updates the AED and CPR Equipment program with 29,561.09 expended between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026. It explains the change as the purchase of a Lucas CPR machine for use by Ocean City EMS, and its indicator is cardiac arrest, often secondary to opioid overdose. The FY2025 report filed the program under Treatment, with the primary problem given as opioid overdose treatment. The books match the figure to the cent. Seven lines of Stryker purchase order 26-00694 for a LUCAS chest compression system and freight, 28,932.62, were paid by check 116669 on 05/21/2026. American Heart Association CPR materials on purchase order 26-00307, 628.47, were paid on 04/24/2026. A LUCAS device gives mechanical chest compressions in cardiac arrest. It is not overdose treatment. On 07/18/2025 the City had bought a LUCAS 3 system from the same vendor for 29,480.29 on its fire capital account, C-04-55-331-501. No overdose program using either device is documented, and mechanical CPR devices are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.