christopher.shiny
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However same technology can also be used to help save lives. Thankfully a growing number of commercial nonprofit and government scientists and laboratories are working towards that goal. This past october the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology announced that graduate student Alec Momont haad developed a prototype drone that delivers a defibrillator to a heart attack victim. To address the reality that the victim's chance of survival decrease dramatically with each passing minute, this "ambulance drone" ise guided by GPS to a mobile phone location within 5.6 square miles in under a minute. Once there, the drone uses live streaming audio and video to allow emergency personnel to provide instructions on how to use the defibrillator correctly, and transmit the patient's vital signs. Widespread adoption of this kind of technology would be welcome news here in the U.S, where heart disease is the number one cause of death for men and women claiming an estimated 600000 lives each year.
Within the Health and safety space there are a number of powerful applications for drones that show great promise:
Dropping off emergency equipment or medication poison antidotes epipens, and oxygen masks are just a few of the life saving possibilities.
Conducting search and rescue operations. Lost or injured people could be located at sea in the mountains, or in a forbidding desert or jungle.
Responding to natural disasters. Fire, flood, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, or severe drought can delay or prevent on site intervention by humanitarian or medical personnel. drones could provide help when and where none would have been available.
none would have been available.
Delivering aid to refugees and victims of war or military conflict. Man made disasters can be just as deadly as natural ones, and drones could deliver aid across hostile borders and amidst chaos that block timely assistance by humans.
Reaching rural or remote patients. Even in safe, peaceful situations, patients can be in locations that lack the infrastructure for effective emergency or ongoing care. Drones could be deployed to provide telemedicine, vaccines, prescription drugs, or medical supplies for home healthcare.
Collection of blood and tissue samples. As well as delivering goods and services, drones could provide quicker return transport to fully equipped labs.
Within the Health and safety space there are a number of powerful applications for drones that show great promise:
Dropping off emergency equipment or medication poison antidotes epipens, and oxygen masks are just a few of the life saving possibilities.
Conducting search and rescue operations. Lost or injured people could be located at sea in the mountains, or in a forbidding desert or jungle.
Responding to natural disasters. Fire, flood, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, or severe drought can delay or prevent on site intervention by humanitarian or medical personnel. drones could provide help when and where none would have been available.
none would have been available.
Delivering aid to refugees and victims of war or military conflict. Man made disasters can be just as deadly as natural ones, and drones could deliver aid across hostile borders and amidst chaos that block timely assistance by humans.
Reaching rural or remote patients. Even in safe, peaceful situations, patients can be in locations that lack the infrastructure for effective emergency or ongoing care. Drones could be deployed to provide telemedicine, vaccines, prescription drugs, or medical supplies for home healthcare.
Collection of blood and tissue samples. As well as delivering goods and services, drones could provide quicker return transport to fully equipped labs.