JUST AMAZING! A Dutch-based engineering student has revealed a prototype 'Ambulance Drone' ... a flying defibrillator!
It can fly at speeds up to 100 kms per hour and tracks emergency mobile calls using GPS to navigate.
If an ambulance took 10 minutes to reach a cardiac arrest patient, the chance of survival is only 8%. But the drone can get a defibrillator to a patient inside a 12 km sq zone within a minute, increasing the chance of survival to 80%.
Once at the scene, an operator, like a paramedic, can watch, talk and instruct those helping the victim by using an on-board camera connected to a control room.
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The question is mainly also how people shall call the drone, who can fly the drone up to the requested area... Just start with delivering water, bisquist and a coffee to hungry thirsty travelrs in a nature and you can add some medical service later on.
@Petr,
I suspect that in the future many innovative ideas will be implemented opening the door to ever increasing imaginations.
I posted this article as a discussion point and I'm not bound to limiting it to just AED drone delivery units. The idea of AED delivery makes sense to me, I'm an EMT and have been for nearly 10 years. So I like where this innovation is going but other things could be attached to drones. I seen articles on life saving delivery drones, and obviously Amazon, and other companies are investigating package delivery drones as well. One could certainly put First AId kits on a drone but weight will always trump flight time if you try to make a mulitcopter to carry all kinds of medical equipment. So you may have to develope drops which can be reconfigured for the type of medical emergency within a minute or so to deliver the correct supplies to the patient ahead of a ambulance.
and a question. why drone shall carry only a defibrilator? :-)
My brother in law has succesfuly give birth to his daughter while they were in the middle way to a hospital. Brother in law recieved consultancy by a phone and when his daughter was successfully born, the ambulancy just arrived and checked the rest.
A defibrilator (arrived by a car, drone or other way) can be helpful with or without a phone assistance if someone need it. No problem! Only one thing is worse. Not to have something you need.
That video was hilarious! Wish the cops was in it. These thugs deserve a beat down. LOL
Doug, one reason about people's reluctance to do CPR is that something that is never practised is forgotten incredibly fast. I was trained in CPR some decades ago. Today I can't even remember the species I 'm supposed to apply it to, let alone where, how hard, the numbers of moves, the pauses in between etc. From memory, I had already forgotten most of it a few years after the course. Training without practice is almost useless.
Regarding training of medical staff, they are trained to do a whole bunch of stuff, quickly and efficiently. They are not everywhere and there is not enough money to have them everywhere. As stop gaps go, this is not a bad one. Sure, they can be stolen but tech advances all the time and people's behaviour changes along with it. The two way video link with an operator might become a bit of a deterrent as can be seen in this entertaining video.
and i really wanted to be positive!!
It's another company with money wanting to get into the "drone" market.
Spending all that money drawing, designing, modelling > to get a fancy looking Y6?
Marketing at it's finest, still not quite as good as flying DHL or pizza delivers...close ;-)
Simon
As a EMT in Maryland I have come onto scenes too often where people are standing around not performing CPR whether it is wintessed or not. Sadly the statistics is correct that on average only 8% are saved due to expedient CPT and AED use. The success rate is way too low even in my field of volunteerism. So what harm could it do to fly one to the scene ahead of a ambulance and hope someone knows how to use it. And on that note ALL AED have instructions both pictorial and verbal when opened and powered on.
The idea of rapid deployment of an AED may seem far fetched, but how much does someone cost? The truer fact of reality is these units are not cheap and combining it into a UAV may be too tempting for someone to walk away with it, even if they dismantle it foor parts or to sell it. I think a UAV designed to drop/deliver it's payload (ie AED) is the way to go as long as you can cut the cost of development down and reduce weight.
And the bigger question is???? Why doesn't everyone learn CPR and save their loved one or a bystander?
I'm helping two student teams do exactly this right now but with fixed wing aircraft in rural areas where an ambulance's response time is far too long. We are aiming for much higher speeds (100-135 mph, 160-220kph) with a range of about 8 miles (13 km). We've looked at comparisons to ambulance arrival times in areas away from major cities and it seems quite reasonable that a UAV carrying an AED could have a big impact.
I get a little sad sometimes when I see big negative responses to interesting ideas here on DIYD... I know not to bother posting anything about my 3D printed aircraft anymore :)
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