Saturday, January 08, 2022

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved the life of a heart-attack patient

Good news! The potential for drone use is almost limitless!

Now more people need to be trained and ready to apply a defibrillator properly when needed. Not every person suffering from a sudden cardiac arrest is so lucky that a doctor happened to be nearby when the incident happened as in this case. 

"A man in Sweden is alive [and recovered] today partly thanks to an autonomous drone. The 71-year-old suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in the city of Trollhättan and was resuscitated by a doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator. A heart attack has to be responded to within ten minutes of the incident, and the drone only took three to arrive ..."

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved the life of a heart-attack patient

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