Medical Applications of Drones for Disaster Relief: A Review of the Literature.

CONCLUSION: Drones can be useful during immediate and non-immediate medical disaster relief efforts. They can provide an instant telecommunications infrastructure, assist in telemedicine-enabled clinical services, perform equipment/drug/patient delivery, enhance search and rescue efforts, assess damage and map disaster zones. Rapid processing of permission for emergency operations, promotion of industry expansion, public awareness, and public participation must be emphasized for these to become routine applications. There is a major concern about the organizational umbrella that would promote this initiative. Creation of an organization such as a Drone Civil Air Patrol Wing (DCAPW) could improve our ability to provide post-disaster healthcare delivery services. PMID: 30384393 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Surgical Technology International - Category: Surgery Tags: Surg Technol Int Source Type: research