It sounds futuristic: drones carrying heart defibrillators swooping in to help bystanders revive people stricken by cardiac arrest. Researchers tested the idea and found drones arrived at the scene of ...

Researchers are set to test how drones could become part of the UK's 999 response system by delivering life-saving defibrillators to cardiac arrest patients. The 16-month project by the University of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A county in North Carolina began using drones to deliver AEDs for suspected cardiac arrest. With plans for ...

Drones could soon be used by the NHS to deliver defibrillators directly to people whose hearts have stopped, potentially reaching patients faster than ambulances and saving more lives. A study by the ...

(TNS) — Duke Health and Forsyth County have launched a research partnership that will dispatch drones to send automated external defibrillators during live 911 calls about people having cardiac arrest ...

Researchers found that drones arrived at the scene of 18 cardiac arrests within about five minutes of launch. That was almost 17 minutes faster on average than ambulances — a big deal for a condition ...

Duke faculty from the School of Medicine are using drones to deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to people experiencing cardiac arrest as part of a clinical trial. According to ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Duke Health and Forsyth County have partnered to launch a groundbreaking program delivering Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) by drone. This first-of-its-kind study aims ...

For wildlife biologists, unmanned aerial vehicles are like a dream come true. Instead of struggling through rugged, difficult terrain to get to the animal they want to study, they can just send in a ...