FlyPulse LifeDrone-AED

2017: Announcement

The Swedish startup of Flypulse developed the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the built-in defibrillator which is, allegedly, capable to come to the rescue four times quicker of people with cardiac arrest in comparison with the ambulance.

According to the American association of heart (American Heart Association, AHA), every year more than 350 thousand residents of the USA are hospitalized as a result of a stop of warm activity, and only 12% of people survive. To increase percent of survival of such patients, AHA strongly recommends that the systems of a defibrillation were everywhere.

The drone developed in Flypulse under the name FlyPulse LifeDrone-AED allows to reduce time from cardiac arrest to a defibrillation for several minutes thanks to what it is annually possible to save hundreds of lives.

The UAV weighing 5.7 kg and gathering speed to 75 km/h is equipped with an external automatic defibrillator which is easy-to-work therefore any passerby who appeared near the victim will be able to use it.

During testing of the drone it was sent to places where there were real cases of cardiac arrest in a radius of 10 km from the place of basing of the UAV on the fire station. The UAV reached a destination point on average in 5 minutes 25 seconds while the ambulance reached to the patient approximately in 22 minutes.

According to estimates of AHA, every minute of lack of the qualified help to the person with cardiac arrest brings closer it to death for 10%. Therefore first-aid treatment and fast delivery of a defibrillator are extremely important parameters for rescue of life.

Developers did not call terms during which it is going to release FlyPulse LifeDrone-AED on the market. The quadcopter price is also not set, but authors of the Futurism edition consider that the product will be not from cheap that will become a serious barrier on the way of its mass distribution.^[1]

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• MTI Drone defibrillator Air rescuer

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