NETHERLANDS: A Dutch university student Alec Momont has introduced prototype ‘ambulance drone’. It is a flying defibrillator that can reach heart attack victims within few precious life-saving minutes. The drone tracks emergency calls and uses the GPS system to navigate. Operators can watch, give the first aid and pertinent instructions to the patient. It can carry 4 kg load. It can fly at speeds of 100 kilometers per hour or 60 miles per hour.
‘Around 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the European Union every year and only 8.0 percent survive,’ Momont, 23, said at the TU Delft University.
‘The main reason for this is the relatively long response time of emergency services of around 10 minutes, while brain death and fatalities occur with four to six minutes,’ he said.
‘The ambulance drone can get a defibrillator to a patient within a 12 square kilometer (4.6 square miles) zone within a minute, reducing the chance of survival from 8 percent to 80 percent.
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