Drone successfully delivers AED to man sufferning heart attack
For the first time, a defibrillator delivered by a drone has played a critical part in saving the life of someone experiencing a cardiac arrest.
"We have a very advanced EMS system in this country — 911 and sending ambulances to these kind of events and other kinds of trauma," said Dr. Wayne Rosamond with the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina."So, how can we integrate drone technology? Not to replace that, of course, but to supplement that."
Dr. Michael Kurz is an emergency medicine researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He sees the most potential for the technology in rural areas. Kurz also sees potential in dense urban areas when an ambulance can't get to the victim because of traffic.Rosamond says a few communities could try AED drone delivery in a year or so, but it could be years after that before it's more widespread in the U.S.
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