Aerial drones for blood delivery.

Transfusion

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.

Published: April 2019

Aerial drone technology is now in use to improve medical care, especially blood delivery. The use of aerial drones is broader than just this and includes aerial photography, express shipping and delivery, disaster management, search and rescue operations, crop monitoring, weather tracking, law enforcement, and structural assessment. This wide use promises to accelerate and, ideally, reduce the cost of technological advances of drones. By doing so, drone use offers the opportunity of improving health care, particularly in remote and/or underserved environments by decreasing lab testing turnaround times, enabling just-in-time lifesaving medical supply/device delivery, and reducing costs of routine prescription care in rural areas.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.15195DOI Listing

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