Drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are aircraft that can be controlled remotely without the need for a pilot. Drones have been widely used in the military since the 1950s. With the development of aerospace technology and software, they are now accessible to ordinary people.
Applications such as iFood and other delivery companies already use drones experimentally in locations that have infrastructure and preparation to receive them, transforming logistics, reducing CO2 emissions and traffic accidents and reinventing the job market, taking the courier away from the rump and placing it on the remote control.
But, how can drones help you in medicine? Find out in this article
How medical drones are transforming healthcare
Transport of biological materials for examinations, delivery of laboratory supplies, transport of vaccines or even organs, which today are costly carried by vehicles on land – or, at most, by helicopters of the fire brigade or the police in special cases of emergency transplants – they make the process more expensive, representing not only an increase in costs but medical inaccessibility to the final consumer, who is charged twice to have access to diagnosis and treatment when he also needs to pay for logistics.
Drones, electric, guided, exempt from taxes on their use, economically and ecologically responsible came to solve this problem. Instead of needing a driver and a car that takes bone marrow to be transplanted, for example, a drone can do the same job – at a cost of less than $ 1 per trip.
Transport of biological materials for examinations, delivery of laboratory supplies, transport of vaccines or even organs, which today are costly carried by vehicles on land – or, at most, by helicopters of the fire brigade or the police in special cases of emergency transplants – they make the process more expensive, representing not only an increase in costs but medical inaccessibility to the final consumer, who is charged twice to have access to diagnosis and treatment when he also needs to pay for logistics. Drones, electric, guided, exempt from taxes on their use, economically and ecologically responsible came to solve this problem. Instead of needing a driver and a car that takes bone marrow to be transplanted, for example, a drone can do the same job – at a cost of less than $ 1 per trip. And the changes don’t stop there.
Recently, the use of robotic drones (which do not require human control), which are guided by geolocation and sensors, has been approved in the United States, which automates transportation and scales delivery possibilities, requiring no operator on land, a kind of flight controller that observes the routes of several drones from the same company and coordinates them in real-time. Sufficiently, the interesting use of drones in health is in the transport of blood components and blood products.
Not all services have hemonucleus it is a select minority that does – where cryoprecipitates, red blood cell concentrates, fresh frozen plasma, and other important blood components for hemotherapy are stored. Sometimes, it takes a single bag of blood to be carried for tens of kilometers, an unreal waste of resources and time, when the same route could be done in half the time at a quarter of the cost with a drone.
Drones in medicine
The transportation of supplies and materials by drone in health care is not something of tomorrow, it is something of today, which could have been in use since yesterday: field and covidian hospitals, often precarious and without technical support or diagnosis, could have benefited a lot with drones, self-piloted or not, to take biological samples or even vaccines throughout the world, saving financial and human resources (avoiding exposures by logistics professionals and medical support to SARS-CoV 2), making it much easier to fight against the pandemic.
With the increase in the number of new cases and the need to distribute imported vaccines, a few hundred drones could solve the problem of thousands of cars, trucks, and other traditional transport vehicles, as well as saving the health of many professionals. The solution is ready, just adopt it.