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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: JuST Peter on December 19, 2014, 08:02:41 AM

Title: ‘Ambulance Drone’ For Cardiac Arrests
Post by: JuST Peter on December 19, 2014, 08:02:41 AM

There's no doubt we live in amazing times. But even in today's advanced medical world, if a person has a cardiac arrest at their home, statistics show less than 10% will survive it If the heart stops beating, the brain dies within 4-6 minutes. This sad fact, coupled with an average ambulance response time of 10 or more minutes, leads to this low chances of survival.

Now comes Alec Momont, a Dutch graduate of Delft University of Technology, has designed a very special drone he believes can drastically improve these numbers. What you really need, Alec surmised, is a defibrillator to jump-start the heart. An ambulane is too slow, but a drone can bring you that defibrillator in just one minute.


TU Delft - Ambulance Drone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc#ws)

Title: Re: ‘Ambulance Drone’ For Cardiac Arrests
Post by: Pezzz on January 25, 2015, 10:54:08 PM

I could see that being misused as a party trick.

Title: Re: ‘Ambulance Drone’ For Cardiac Arrests
Post by: Totgas on January 26, 2015, 11:00:52 AM

Fair concept - poor application.
Will never replace effective CPR and until defibrillators are much, much lighter, wouldn't work.
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