Drone beats ambulance in delivering defibrillators to people suffering heart attacks - TomoNews

TROLLHATTAN, SWEDEN — Swedish researchers have tested using drones to deliver automated external defibrillators to those suffering cardiac arrest. In many cases, patients are too far away from hospitals to seek immediate treatment, and drones could be a faster way to help them.

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden attached an AED to an eight-rotor drone. The drone has autopilot and GPS functions and is painted a fluorescent color similar to ambulances to help people visually locate it.

The trial was conducted in Norrtälje, a rural area near Stockholm. The drone was able to deliver the AED in just over 5 minutes, whereas the median dispatch time for an emergency ambulance was 22 minutes, the New Scientist reported.

According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests take place in the U.S. each year but only about 10 percent of patients survive. Their chances of survival reduces by 10 percent every minute without CPR and defibrillation, according to the New Scientists.

“If we can decrease the time in cardiac arrest from collapse to defibrillation by a few minutes, hundreds of lives would be saved each year,” Jacob Hollenberg Hollenberg at Karolinska Institute told the New Scientist.
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[jauri]

The dutch drone flies 100 km/h, at 4:29 they say it can transport the device to someone in need inside a 12 km zone within 1 minute, someone has messed up the math here. With that speed you reach max 1.7 km within 1 minute. Still thumbs up for all these projects!!

[arzantyt]

The second one is like a nice videogame :D

[abigailandino]

My god….this is so crazy it’s perfect 😳

[brandonoconnor]

We are depending on technology too much! Sometimes humans are better than all this technology.

[sharkie]

In the netherlands they testen it in 2014

[chrismartell]

But can it pick older people up off the floor day and night? As that's the most calls to UK EMS @ over 20% of all calls !

[Akamiruu]

I'd rather have PEOPLE help me than a robot that can malfunction.

[suspicioussauceguy]

hälsningar från svergie means
Greetings from Sweden greetings tomonews hälsningar!

[MrYendor]

this would hurt. but you could use a taser tip mounted on the drone to shoot patient to treat the patient ie shoot patient and just start the heart, would be good for lone drone situations, ,, the leads from the taser tip could be used to get the victims readings, it is a bit cruel but if it works

[bird]

people would be amazed that it got here and by the time they're done the person they are try to save might be dead

[dontquestionmyprofilepictu]

have public defibs that anyone can use like us in the uk.

[coconutboy-gdjv]

Sometimes my heart starts hurting randomly. Does anybody know why?

[emsartifact]

How well does that little AED drone fly in bad weather? The drone for transporting patients still has to have someone to treat the patient. Does that person fly in the drone to the scene? It didn't seem so from the animation.

Lot's of nice, but not particularly practical ideas by people who have no idea what EMS does.

[pepsilol]

nice technology, but on erth live to many stupid people to use this thing :D

[matinlutekingejes]

dutch students invented this?! not the swedish

[edwardzamora]

Who needs first comment... I got the 50th like ...