Every minute counts when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. New research suggests that drones equipped with equipment to automatically restart someone’s heart could help get life-saving care to people much faster.
If your heart stops beating outside of a hospital, your chance of survival is typically less than 10 percent. One thing that can boost the prospect of pulling through is an automated external defibrillator (AED)—a device that can automatically diagnose dangerous heart rhythms and deliver an electric shock to get the heart pumping properly again.
AEDs are designed to be easy to…
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