Fuck war and fuck robots only designed for narrow killing tasks, imagine what this machine can do for livesaving missions all over the world!!!
The absolutely ESSENTIAL thing to keep in mind here is that these machines are immediate lifesaving gifts to humanity no matter how mature the technology is since in situations where a traditional human rescue crew in a helicopter or otherwise that are too dangerous to attempt a rescue there is now another option that can be tried repeatedly without the risk of anyone dying. There is of course the risk of the aircraft crashing with the rescue victim on it, and that needs to be treated seriously but again… when we are talking about no other options that is simply a risk that has to be taken.
Additionally once this technology becomes mature and extremely safe this might actually be a very practical method of moving people with spinal injuries (or who are otherwise very physically frail) who can’t have their back moved from a straight position and because of other injuries cannot be safely jostled around over rough terrain on a stretcher.
All this rescue method would involve is movement of the victim on to the stretcher of the aircraft and then it could fly a short distance out of an area of exceedingly rough terrain and land, then allowing another method of transportation to take the victim the rest of the way. In this way there are lots of rescue situations that this category of aircraft might be useful in that are not immediately obvious and could also facilitate a high volume of rescue even though this aircraft can only carry a single person at a time.
once this technology becomes mature and extremely safe this might actually be a very practical method of
…crossing the strait of Georgia in a timely fashion. It’s only like 40km but the mercenary ferry service is just unreliable and flaky.
I’ll do this every day if it gets me there today.
Situations where a medic can reach a patient but then the patient needs to be transported by air lift for less than 15km seem rather rare outside combat situations. Maybe if you use it to transport the medic to the site first to have them stabilize and prepare the patient for transport and then do a second flight to pic the medic up again.
Situations where a medic can reach a patient but then the patient needs to be transported by air lift for less than 15km
I don’t necessarily agree but all the same, luckily people are already one step ahead of both of us!!
Maybe if you use it to transport the medic to the site first to have them stabilize and prepare the patient for transport and then do a second flight to pic the medic up again.
One of the first two calls she responded to was a cardiac emergency, a response where seconds shaved off the response time can matter, more so minutes. In one study on the topic (retrieved from the National Library of Medicine), researchers analyzed years of data on EMS responses to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events in Taipei City, Taiwan, and quantified a rapid decline in survival probability when ALS care is delayed. “For every minute of delayed ALS response time, the likelihood of survival to hospital discharge would reduce by 7 [percent],” the paper reports. “Further, for every minute of delayed ALS response time, there was a reduction of 9 [percent] … chance of favorable neurologic outcome … at discharge.”
While other, similar studies have failed to prove comparable fast-response advantages, the premise that ALS response time matters to a significant degree in certain types of emergencies—particularly cardiac events and trauma—has shaped paramedic training and practice for decades. It generally takes more than two years to qualify as an emergency medical technician—paramedic, including 1,800 hours or more of classroom and clinical rotations, in-service training on basic life support and ALS ambulances, and passing a series of exams. On a ground ambulance, a paramedic has most of the same tools used in a hospital emergency room at their disposal, but the strict payload limits of a multirotor electric aircraft prompted Reece to pare that down to the absolute essentials. The Philips Tempus ALS cardiac monitor and defibrillator is a lightweight version of the crucial device that trades off some diagnostic capability for size and weight, administers electric shocks via pads rather than paddles, and “fits perfectly in this aircraft.” Reece also filled a primary care bag with all the tools needed to control bleeding and restore an airway, various medications, a suction device, and an oxygen bottle. “In all, I think my gear weighed around 30, 32 pounds.”
Medical helicopter pilots rarely, if ever, get involved in patient care, but Reece had to learn to wear two hats, and develop an aeronautical skill set and knowledge base. She recalled learning when to think like a pilot and not like a paramedic
Well, that is about getting a medic to a patient and not transporting a patient. So a completely different usecase.
(And getting a quadcopter like in the OP reliable enough to make it suitable for anything other that emergency transport of a patient that might otherwise die would be challenging).
