In the future, drones could potentially deliver defibrillators to cardiac arrest calls before first responders arrive. MORE ⬇️
“We had drones, we had defibrillators, there are ambulances, there are dispatch centers, we had all of those components. But we had to get all of that together,” said Andreas Claesson, a registered nurse and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Over a span of four months a couple years ago, they did 11 deliveries and published the results in a study.“We are still in the project, we have seven drones now,” he said. “In cardiac arrest in Sweden, we dispatch two ambulances and one fire truck and, as a compliment, a drone.” “Early defibrillation is known to increase survival heavily. If we are able to deliver an AED and use it within three to five minutes of a cardiac arrest, 50% could survive,” he said.“Survival is pretty poor and has changed somewhat, but not a lot in the past 30 years,” said Doctor Monique Starks, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine.
She said the biggest hurdle right now is current drone regulations put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration. Right now, drone operators have to keep the drone in a visual line of sight. Starks expects this rule could change over the next few years.
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