January 5, 2022 08:40 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden
Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old had a heart attack while shoveling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator, Everdrone reported Tuesday.
Someone having a heart attack needs help within 10 minutes in order to survive. Everdrone’s Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery (EMADE) service is designed to deliver help as quickly as possible — it allows emergency dispatchers to send a drone carrying the device to a caller’s home, kickstarting the lifesaving process before the ambulance arrives at their home. In this particular patient’s case, it took three minutes for the services to deliver the defibrillator to his home. A bystander, who happened to...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden
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