Is there a place in the healthcare system for drone use? What might a drone be used for in the healthcare system? Let's take a look at what is going on in the healthcare world and the possibilities with the help of drones. Mayo Clinic is investigating the possible uses for drones in healthcare. The research team looked into existing air delivery operations in healthcare and concluded that blood transportation would be ideal for drones. Mayo Clinics air transport team delivers 200 units of packed red blood cells and 200 units of plasma each year to other rural hospitals. Blood is expensive and expires, platelets and thawed plasma only last five days and supplies are limited. Right now, these things are being transported by ambulance transport teams and helicopters, which are very expensive compared to the cost of using drones. The research team for Mayo Clinic also believes drones will be valuable to transport emergency medications in some instances, such as antivenin for treatment of snake bites and to deliver a defibrillator and webcam to bystanders when someone is having a heart attack. They believe this could save lives. Matternet has used drones to deliver food and medical supplies to areas hit by disaster in places like Haiti. Rapid delivery of medications, supplies, vaccines, mobile technology, or portable shelter to name a few of the medical supplies that could be quickly delivered to places where a natural disaster prevents normal air or ground transport. Drones could be used to deliver medicine to a patients bedside from the pharmacy. Nurses taking care of patients could work more efficiently because they wouldn't have to gather items to take to the patient, it could be delivered by a drone. Drones could also deliver medications and supplies to patients at home, allowing the patient to receive help at home instead of having to be in the hospital. Blood could be drawn by an in home medical person and sent directly to the lab for tests. The treatments could then be sent to the in home patient via a drone. This would also allow patients to remain in their homes for a longer time span before having to go to a nursing home. Drones could deliver meals to home bound people and watch over someone with dementia. Drones will likely take on many tasks in the future for healthcare which are now done by humans, which will reduce cost and errors. Doctors without borders used drones in New Guinea to transport dummy TB test samples from a remote village to the city of Kerema. Drones are being tested in remote areas because there is a need there and because drones are not yet permitted in the United States airspace. When the FAA starts allowing drones into the U.S. airspace, drone usage for healthcare will quickly take off. The ability for drones to fly over rough and rugged terrain and places where the roads have been taken out without risking human relief workers, will probably put drones to use the most quickly for disaster relief. Off shore ships and accident scenes with critically injured persons will be close in line behind disaster relief. Other healthcare related jobs will come to drones not long after though. The more popular drones become, the more great uses we come up with to utilize the abilities of drones. There are many things in the healthcare system that drones will be used for and will hopefully help save many lives. Be sure to visit us at www.RCDRonesPro.com if we can answer any questions for you or if you are looking to buy a drone from the professional drone store. I am excited to see what the world will come up with next for drones. Aren't you?
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