Everdrone launches next-generation medical drone for emergency medical transport

Swedish com­pa­ny Ever­drone has launched a new med­ical trans­port drone, which fea­tures increased capac­i­ty to car­ry mul­ti­ple types of med­ical equip­ment.

Mats Sall­strom, Ever­drone’s CEO, says the per­for­mance of this lat­est prod­uct, known as E3, has been sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved com­pared to pre­vi­ous ver­sions. It mea­sures 90 × 75 × 55 cm, exclud­ing pro­pellers, and weighs 24 kg.

It can car­ry up to 4.5kg and has the abil­i­ty to trans­port defib­ril­la­tors and oth­er types of med­ical equip­ments, such as adren­a­line for ana­phy­lat­ic reac­tions, anti­dotes for opi­oid over­does and ban­dages and tourni­quets to stop life-threat­en­ing bleed­ing.

The pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion, E2, was a devel­op­ment plat­form based on com­mer­cial com­po­nents and capa­ble of car­ry­ing a 2 kg pay­load con­sist­ing of a defib­ril­la­tor.

Sall­strom said: “The new drone is faster, safer, and can car­ry heav­ier pay­loads. This will save lives. Our ini­tial focus was on devel­op­ing soft­ware for drone ser­vices, but we real­ized that there were no com­mer­cial­ly avail­able drones that matched the needs of emer­gency med­ical care. There­fore, we chose to devel­op our own.”

Ever­drone AB is a lead­ing provider of autonomous drone sys­tems for emer­gency response and health­care. Based in Gothen­burg, its pro­pri­etary tech­nol­o­gy enables the extreme­ly rapid deliv­ery of life-sav­ing med­ical equip­ment, such as auto­mat­ed exter­nal defib­ril­la­tors (AEDs), direct­ly to the scene while also pro­vid­ing real-time video sup­port to emer­gency dis­patch­ers.

Known for safe, reg­u­la­to­ry-com­pli­ant oper­a­tions in urban areas, the com­pa­ny col­lab­o­rates with pub­lic author­i­ties to inte­grate its sys­tems with exist­ing emer­gency infra­struc­ture. Ever­drone is expand­ing inter­na­tion­al­ly, with pilot pro­grams and col­lab­o­ra­tions across Europe.

Sall­strom adds: “Allow­ing drones to trans­port emer­gency med­ical equip­ment sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces trans­port time. On aver­age in Swe­den, it takes ten min­utes for an ambu­lance to arrive at an emer­gency scene.

“While wait­ing for an ambu­lance, Everdrone’s new drone can be on site in under three min­utes, mak­ing it a com­ple­ment to emer­gency med­ical ser­vices that saves lives.”