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Drone saves heart attack patient in Sweden
January 6, 2022
Summary
A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old had a heart attack while shoveling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator.
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Someone having a heart attack needs help within 10 minutes in order to survive. Everdrone’s Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery (EMADE) service is designed to deliver help as quickly as possible — it allows emergency dispatchers to send a drone carrying the device to a caller’s home.
In this particular patient’s case, it took three minutes for the services to deliver the defibrillator to his home. A bystander, who happened to be a doctor on the way to his job, used the AED on the patient after providing CPR.
Currently, the EMADE service can reach 200,000 Swedish residents. The company said it plans to expand to more locations in Europe this year.
[https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden](https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden)