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The need for speed when transporting medical supplies should never be underestimated; medical supplies need to be as fresh as possible and often need to arrive at the scene in a matter of minutes for a patient’s life to be saved. Drones are increasingly being used for delivering products not exceeding a certain weight, and there were dramatic scenes recently in the U.S. state of Maryland when a drone was used to deliver a kidney from one neighbourhood of Baltimore to another. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: DRAMATIC MEDICAL DRONE DELIVERY OF ORGAN!


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DRAMATIC MEDICAL DRONE DELIVERY OF ORGAN!
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  • The need for speed when transporting medical
    supplies should never be underestimated medical
    supplies need to be as fresh as possible and
    often need to arrive at the scene in a matter of
    minutes for a patients life to be saved. Drones
    are increasingly being used for delivering
    products not exceeding a certain weight, and
    there were dramatic scenes recently in the U.S.
    state of Maryland when a drone was used to
    deliver a kidney from one neighbourhood of
    Baltimore to another.

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  • Drone delivers kidney to hospital
  • Drones have been used to deliver organs in many
    cases over the years, but this delivery was
    particularly dramatic, as a kidney winged its way
    via a custom unmanned aviation system designed by
    physicians, researchers, aviation and engineering
    experts, to a nearby hospital. The kidney was
    transplanted into a 44-year-old lady who had been
    receiving dialysis treatment for the past 8
    years, and who was subsequently deemed fit to
    leave hospital and begin leading her life, free
    from the constrictions of dialysis. This was, in
    fact, the very first drone delivery of an organ
    that was successfully transplanted into a
    patient, and there are hopes that this will be
    the first of many more to come.

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  • Why have previous drone deliveries of organs
    failed?
  • The primary reason for such organ delivery
    missions failing in the past, is down to time
    constraints, with almost 3,000 kidneys having to
    be discarded every year in the U.S. alone because
    they simply dont reach the patient in time. This
    is huge, and the sad impact of this failure is
    that those patients waiting for organs, die.

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  • Who made this delivery happen?
  • Experts in the field of aviation and engineering,
    along with transplant physicians, researchers at
    the University of Maryland School of Medicine in
    Baltimore, and the non-profit Living Legacy
    Foundation of Maryland, united to help make the
    historic and ground-breaking flight happen. The
    FAA also had to cooperate with the team and agree
    to allow the flight to happen, which was
    certainly not a given, considering the strict
    laws in place about flying drones over American
    cities. Thankfully, due to the nature of the
    mission, it was hard for anyone to disagree to
    the proposal, including the FAA.

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  • How are organs usually delivered?
  • Donor organs are usually taken by airplane to
    their destination a charter or commercial
    flight depending upon the situation but
    logistically speaking, this can often prove to be
    a nightmare, and once the organ reaches its
    destination, it often gets left behind and never
    gets to the intended hospital in time. Research
    has shown that donor organs once in transit,
    dont make it to their intended destination for
    up to 2 of the time, and 4 of shipments
    experience significant delays of up to 2 hours.
    While this may not sound like much, when it comes
    to organs for transplant, every minute really
    does count and lives depend upon the speed at
    which the organ can be delivered.

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  • In comparison to these delays, the flight of the
    drone carrying the kidney in this case took a
    mere 5 minutes to reach the destination and went
    directly from donor to the hospital.
  • With the success of this organ delivery by drone,
    the future looks bright for patients waiting for
    life-saving organ transplants, and many lives
    could quite literally be saved.

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