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Using Drones to Decrease Time to Defibrillation

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: JAMA

Source URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2631520

Author(s)

Andreas Claesson, Anders Bäckman, Mattias Ringh, Leif Svensson, Per Nordberg, Therese Djärv, Jacob Hollenberg

Using a simulated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenario, the authors compared the time from an emergency call to resource deployment and arrival for drone-delivered automatic external defibrillator (AED) and ground vehicle-based emergency medical services (EMS). Mean time to dispatch was 3 sec for the drone and 3 min for EMS. Over a median flight distance of 3.2 km, mean time to arrival was 5:21 min for the drone vs 22:00 min for EMS.