Student inventor Alec Momont of the University of Technology Delft (NL) has unveiled the 'unmanned ambulance' , giving emergency medical care to people with heart attacks in the first minutes of life. network.
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The yellow prototype airplane takes off with six propellers, which can carry a weight of 4 kilograms, which in this case is a defibrillator. It monitors emergency calls and uses a global positioning system (GPS) to determine the direction of the flight to the victim's location.
Momont's plane boosts the chances of surviving heart attack patients.
At the scene, the driver is also an emergency doctor who can observe, talk and guide people around the ambulance for the victims through images from the camera available on the aircraft (connected to the room control via webcam).
Momont said that 800,000 people had sudden cardiac arrest each year in Europe and only 8% survived. The main cause is an emergency waiting time of up to 10 minutes, while cerebral death and death can occur in 4-6 minutes. Meanwhile, 'ambulances deliver a defibrillator to patients within 12 km 2 for only one minute, which increases the chances of survival by 8 percent to 80 percent, " the 23-year-old said.
Thanks to its superiority, the prototype ambulance has attracted the attention of emergency agencies. Momont hopes to develop a network of emergency airplanes throughout the Netherlands over the next five years.
