Sweden: Everdrone Extends Project of Life-Saving Delivery of Defibrillators For Cardiac Victims

Recent­ly, Swe­den-Based Ever­drone was giv­en the go-ahead by offi­cials from the region of Väs­tra Göta­land to extend its “First on Scene Solu­tions” to rapid­ly deliv­er life-sav­ing Auto­mat­ed Exter­nal Defib­ril­la­tors (AED) for car­diac vic­tims, reports a press release. The project is to con­tin­ue through­out 2023.

This is an impor­tant step towards a per­ma­nent estab­lish­ment of using the drones, while gath­er­ing insights in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the largest region­al health­care provider in Swe­den.

Since June 2020, the project has been con­duct­ing oper­a­tions, deliv­er­ing valu­able results and mak­ing a pos­i­tive impact on the region’s emer­gency response efforts.

The release states, “The use of drones to prompt­ly deliv­er defib­ril­la­tors has proven to be sig­nif­i­cant­ly faster than tra­di­tion­al ambu­lance first respon­der assis­tance. The deci­sion to extend the project is the next step towards inte­grat­ing drone deliv­er­ies of AEDs into the region’s life-sav­ing chain on a per­ma­nent basis.”

Mag­nus Kris­tians­son, Inno­va­tion Plat­form Man­ag­er with­in Region Väs­tra Göta­land, com­ment­ed, “We can keep adding to our grow­ing knowl­edge data­base, by gain­ing fur­ther insights and keep on learn­ing more on how we can use the tech­nol­o­gy and sys­tem for the ben­e­fit of the region’s inhab­i­tants.”

The part­ners are cur­rent­ly explor­ing ways to expand the drone’s use, such as deploy­ing them to trans­mit live film of acci­dent sites. Everdrone’s Live­View appli­ca­tion has been spe­cial­ly devel­oped to pro­vide emer­gency ser­vices with vital and time-sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion for mak­ing quick deci­sions before first respon­ders arrive at the scene.

Mats Säll­ström, CEO of Ever­drone CEO, said, “The pos­si­bil­i­ties left to explore are numer­ous. Present­ly, we’re among the world’s lead­ing com­pa­nies when it comes to drone tech­nol­o­gy and reg­u­la­to­ry know-how, yet we’re still only get­ting start­ed. Ever­drone will always be in a state of inno­va­tion.”

The part­ner­ship has gone through a num­ber of phas­es. Ini­tial­ly, Region Väs­tra Göta­land sup­port­ed the project via a ded­i­cat­ed inno­va­tion fund, but since the sum­mer of 2022, financ­ing has come direct­ly from the Region, mak­ing the coop­er­a­tion even stronger.

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