Delivery of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) by Drones: Implications for Emergency Cardiac Care

Overview

Journal Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep

Publisher Springer

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2018 Nov 17

PMID 30443281

Citations 12

Authors

Jessica K Zegre-Hemsey

Brittany Bogle

Christopher J Cunningham

Kyle Snyder

Wayne Rosamond

Affiliations

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Abstract

Purpose Of Review: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a significant health problem in the USA and only 8.6% of victims survive with good neurological function, despite advances in emergency cardiac care. The likelihood of OHCA survival decreases by 10% for every minute without resuscitation.

Recent Findings: Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) have the potential to save lives yet public access defibrillators are underutilized (< 2% of the time) because they are difficult to locate and rarely available in homes or residential areas, where the majority (70%) of OHCA occur. Even when AEDs are within close proximity (within 100 m), they are not used 40% of the time.

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