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Medical Drones Will Thrive in Healthcare: A Safe Road to Health

Drones are the future of delivery

According to my geek calendar, 2017 will be the year of the drone. These advanced versions of model airplanes or unmanned aerial vehicles are everywhere on the rise. According to the estimates of the Consumer Technology Association, 9.4 million units were projected to be sold in 2016 worldwide; and the number will soar in 2017.

The use of drones in aerial photography or monitoring seems pretty obvious, but some fans are already organizing drone races and a less fortunate guy caught her cheating wife with it. But it was certainly Amazon, which generated the biggest buzz last year by its announcement about delivering goods…

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 Transforming cardiac emergency care with drone delivery of AEDs

Can medical drones reduce the time to cardiac treatment by getting an automated external defibrillator (AED) into the hands of a bystander? Preliminary studies suggest that drones may make a life-saving difference in providing emergency care to cardiac arrest patients, especially those in a rural setting.

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The Rise of Nonviolent Drones

In five short years, small drones have gone from a quiet hobby to a thing everyone seems to be talking about—even Martha Stewart. Drone use has exploded. Advocacy groups such as Human Rights Watch, Open Society Foundations, and Amnesty International have focused considerable energy on highlighting American use of weaponized drones—but what about everyone else? What are they doing?

A Drone to Save the World

Developing countries are skipping over roads and going straight to drones for providing health care.

Ambulances are so 2016. After a cardiac arrest, the fastest way to send help is on a flying drone

The best medicine for a person going into sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock. That jolt temporarily stops the heart, along with its rapid or erratic beat. When the heart starts itself up again, it can revert to its normal rhythm and resume pumping blood to the brain and the rest of the body. The sooner this happens, the better. When a patient is shocked within one minute of collapse, the chance of survival is nearly 90%. But if it takes 10 minutes to administer a shock, the odds of survival fall below 5%.

As Aging Population Grows, So Do Robotic Health Aides

The ranks of older and frail adults are growing rapidly in the developed world, raising alarms about how society is going to help them take care of themselves in their own homes. Naira Hovakimyan has an idea: drones.

Can Drones Fix Madagascar's Broken Health System?

The home of the world's biggest plague problem has been testing an aggressive pilot program to find out.

Drones carrying blood could be the future of rural medicine

A drone flew chilled human blood for 160 miles over the hot Arizona desert — smashing records for transport of biological samples on a remotely operated vehicle. The blood was still in good condition after the three-hour flight, which means that the growing role of drones in rural medical care really could have the potential to save lives.

Drones Could Save Lives Faster Than Paramedics

Copters carrying AEDs might increase survival odds in people suffering cardiac arrest.

Drones Deliver Life Saving Medical Supplies In Africa

In October 2016, Zipline began using drones to deliver medical supplies to health clinics in Rwanda. The San Francisco based company is a combination high tech startup, drone manufacturer, logistics service provider, and public healthcare system consultant.

Drones in medicine-The rise of the machines

This is a medical kitty hawk moment. Drones are pilotless aircrafts that were initially used exclusively by the military but are now also used for various scientific purposes, public safety, and in commercial industries. The healthcare industry in particular can benefit from their technical capabilities and ease of use.

Drones to Map Out Worldwide Plastic Pollution

It is well known that plastic pollution is riddling our oceans and threatening various marine life, so now scientists are using drones to map out this debris and better understand how to deal with the problem.

Switzerland Is Getting A Network Of Medical Delivery Drones

Matternet’s new system will let hospitals quickly move samples to labs and get extra blood for emergencies. It’s the first of its kind operating in a dense, urban environment.

Resources

6 Ways Drones Could Change Health Care

Drones have been used to deliver sunscreen to a conference in Palm Springs, Calif., and pizza to a family in New Zealand, but they’re also in the air for far more urgent purposes — such as saving lives.

Medical Drones

Unmanned aircraft for transport of medical cargo, validated by peer-reviewed research.

Zipline

Zipline operates the world’s only drone delivery system at national scale to send urgent medicines, such as blood and animal vaccines, to those in need – no matter where they live.

Matternet

Make access to goods as frictionless and universal as access to information. Our products enable organizations around the world to build and operate drone logistics networks for transporting goods on demand, through the air, at a fraction of the time, cost and energy of any other transportation method used today.

WeRobotics

We are building a global network of labs where people accelerate and scale the impact of their humanitarian aid, global development and environmental protection efforts using appropriate robotics solutions.