Nathan B Roberts, Emily Ager, Thomas Leith, Isabel Lott, Marlee Mason-Maready, Tyler Nix, Adam Gottula, Nathaniel Hunt, Christine Brent
Interventions for many medical emergencies including cardiac arrests, strokes, drug overdoses, seizures, and trauma, are critically time-dependent, with faster intervention leading to improved patient outcomes. Consequently, a major focus of emergency medical services (EMS) systems and prehospital medicine has been improving the time until medical intervention in these time-sensitive emergencies, often by reducing the time required to deliver critical medical supplies to the scene of the emergency. Medical indications for using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are rapidly expanding, including the delivery of time-sensitive medical supplies...
March 2023: Resuscitation plus