Drones delivered defibrillators to patients with suspected cardiac arrests
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden can now report the results of a unique pilot project where drones were used to deliver defibrillators to real-life alerts of suspected cardiac arrest. The drones were dispatched in more than a fifth of the emergencies and arrived on target and ahead of the ambulance in most cases. The results are published in the European Heart Journal and presented today at the European Society of Cardiology congress.”This is the first time in the world that a research group can report results from a study where drones flew defibrillators to location of real-