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A team of doctors based in Mississippi is working on a telemedicine technology that could get emergency care to rural areas faster. It's an aerial ambulance: a drone named HiRO, which stands for Health Integrated Rescue Operations.
The team is working on how to make the drone simpler and easier to use. Must be easy enough so that people with no medical knowledge can use it, even when they're in the middle of a crisis situation.
"The inspiration for using drone-based technology were individuals who could not reach or communicate with their frail, elderly loved ones due to downed power lines and trees," said Italo Subbarao, an emergency medicine specialist who came up with the idea for HiRO.
With the potential to integrate into local emergency 911 systems, each drone carries a medical kit that, when opened on the ground, can help bystanders provide simple medical care until emergency help arrives.
In addition to medicine and supplies stored in small bins that can be unlocked remotely, the drone's medical kit contains an augmented reality interface that acts as a direct link to a remote, on-call doctor. Once you put the googles on, the doctor can see what you see and help provide medical care.
"We have designed many drone and telemedical package prototypes in the past four years," said Guy Paul Cooper, Jr., who developed the drone with Subbarao as a medical student at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Cooper and Subbarao say the kits can vary from two to 20 pounds, depending on their purpose. The heaviest kits are meant for mass-casualty events (bioterrorism, mass shootings) and disasters that displace or endanger many people (earthquakes, hurricanes). Smaller kits are more appropriate for search-and-rescue missions in remote areas, including wilderness emergencies.
HIRO the Ambulances Drones, Modern Way of Emergency Response
Teknologi.id
. October 18, 2018
A team of doctors based in Mississippi is working on a telemedicine technology that could get emergency care to rural areas faster. It's an aerial ambulance: a drone named HiRO, which stands for Health Integrated Rescue Operations.
The team is working on how to make the drone simpler and easier to use. Must be easy enough so that people with no medical knowledge can use it, even when they're in the middle of a crisis situation.
"The inspiration for using drone-based technology were individuals who could not reach or communicate with their frail, elderly loved ones due to downed power lines and trees," said Italo Subbarao, an emergency medicine specialist who came up with the idea for HiRO.
With the potential to integrate into local emergency 911 systems, each drone carries a medical kit that, when opened on the ground, can help bystanders provide simple medical care until emergency help arrives.
In addition to medicine and supplies stored in small bins that can be unlocked remotely, the drone's medical kit contains an augmented reality interface that acts as a direct link to a remote, on-call doctor. Once you put the googles on, the doctor can see what you see and help provide medical care.
"We have designed many drone and telemedical package prototypes in the past four years," said Guy Paul Cooper, Jr., who developed the drone with Subbarao as a medical student at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Cooper and Subbarao say the kits can vary from two to 20 pounds, depending on their purpose. The heaviest kits are meant for mass-casualty events (bioterrorism, mass shootings) and disasters that displace or endanger many people (earthquakes, hurricanes). Smaller kits are more appropriate for search-and-rescue missions in remote areas, including wilderness emergencies.
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