Star Flight crews now have a new tool that should improve their ability to save lives. Earlier this month, Star Flight equipped it's three helicopters with new monitor-defibrillators, used to resuscitate patients affected by sudden cardiac arrest. Chris Postiglione, Star Flight's Chief Clinical Supervisor, says new technology has led to definite advantages. 

Postiglione says they are more compact and provide more information than previous models. But he says despite the upside of the new defibrillators, the public would still be better served if people continued to learn to provide basic, bystander CPR. 

Postiglione says the new defibrillators cost 20 to 30-thousand dollars, each, and went into service February 1st. He says the defibrillators replaced by the new ones had been in service seven or eight years.