Duke University
The overall goal of this project is to design, develop, and pilot test an emergency healthcare drone delivery system suitable for rural communities that can deliver AEDs to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) locations more rapidly than can be achieved with current first responder and EMS systems. The goal is to determine whether this method of AED delivery can be achieved rapidly enough to justify a future clinical trial directly testing its ability to improve OHCA survival.
To achieve the project goal, 3 specific aims will be addressed. The details in this ClinicalTrials.gov record are specific to Aim 3. Aim 1: Define options for emergency healthcare drone station configurations best suited for rural communities and use these findings to help design future drone AED delivery programs in rural communities. Sub aim 1a: Define and examine EMS agency treatment, performance, and outcomes of OCHA in rural versus urban regions across the US. This will be done by using CARES Registry data from all OHCA treated by emergency medical professionals from participating EMS…
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients 18 years of age or older in the CARES registry who suffer cardiac arrest before arrival of a 911-responder of non-traumatic cause, including patients who receive an AED shock by a bystander prior to the arrival of 911 responders. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients in the CARES registry who have a traumatic cause of cardiac arrest.
Integrate AED drone delivery into an existing FAA-approved drone-as-first-responder programs
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