Time to Delivery of an Automated External Defibrillator Using a Drone for Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests vs Emergency Medical Services

Andreas Claesson; Anders Bäckman; Mattias Ringh; Leif Svensson; Per Nordberg; Therese Djärv; Jacob Hollenberg

doi:10.1001/jama.2017.3957

Time to Delivery of an Automated External Defibrillator Using a Drone for Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests vs Emergency Medical Services

JAMA. 2017 Jun 13;317(22):2332-2334. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.3957.

Authors

Andreas Claesson¹, Anders Bäckman¹, Mattias Ringh¹, Leif Svensson¹, Per Nordberg¹, Therese Djärv¹, Jacob Hollenberg¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Resuscitation Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

This study compares the time to delivery of an automated external defibrillator using fully autonomous drones for simulated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests vs emergency medical services real-time responses.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aircraft* / statistics & numerical data
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Defibrillators / statistics & numerical data
Defibrillators / supply & distribution*
Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
Emergency Medical Services / statistics & numerical data*
Geographic Information Systems*
Humans
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / therapy*
Statistics, Nonparametric
Sweden
Time Factors*