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\nBy combining the two technologies, drones and telemedicine, a doctor miles away could instruct a layman at the scene in how to provide rudimentary, but perhaps life-saving, medical care.\n<\/div>\n
\nSubbarao\u2019s project, which he began the year after the Hattiesburg tornado, has now produced three prototypes and conducted several demonstration flights. It appears to be the most advanced attempt to equip a drone with audiovisual equipment so doctors and survivors can interact in an emergency.\u00a0 Emergency management officials from Dallas, New York City, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., have reached out to him, as have officials from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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\nDrone technology has been around for at least half a century, and for years people in health care have speculated about the medical use of drones, for example to transport medicines, organs for transplants, blood supplies and anti-venom serums.\n<\/div>\n
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\nLee Smithson, director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said, \u201cThis is going to be a phenomenal way to provide immediate medical attention anywhere in the state.\u201d Noting Mississippi\u2019s frequent poor rankings among states in measures of well-being, he added, \u201cIt\u2019s about time that Mississippi leads the nation in something good for a change.\u201d\n<\/div>\n
\nThe plan, Smithson said, is to eventually station a drone in as many as nine different areas of the state, so every place in Mississippi is within two hours of a medical drone.\n<\/div>\n
\nChris Sawyer, medical director of Remote Area Medical, isn\u2019t surprised by the broad interest in the project. \u201cIt is revolutionary,\u201d he said.\n<\/div>\n
\nIt\u2019s also not altogether a surprise that the idea of an interactive medical drone arose in Mississippi. The state is frequently visited by tornadoes, some of which have caused substantial numbers of deaths and injuries. The state has a shortage of doctors and, according to Smithson, many areas of the state cannot be reached quickly by medical responders.\n<\/div>\n
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\nThe current prototypes can only fly up to 5 miles, at speeds up to 40 mph, Lott says, but he\u2019s working on another model that could travel far greater distances, up to 100 miles.\n<\/div>\n
\nThe drones carry a suitcase with medical supplies and equipment. The audiovisual equipment comes in two varieties: stand-alone cameras with microphones and speakers, and interactive goggles that can be worn by someone on the ground. In either case, a doctor from a remote location could instruct a survivor to train the camera on victims or parts of the body to assess their condition.\n<\/div>\n
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\nThe doctor could give instructions on taking readings such as blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, or sugar or oxygen levels, using equipment dropped by the drone. And the doctor could talk a survivor through ways of giving aid, such as applying tourniquets, cleaning, clotting or bandaging wounds, and injecting medicines.\n<\/div>\n
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