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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests

A defibrillator mounted in a telephone booth in London.
Every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces the chance of surviving a cardiac event by 10%. Photograph: Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images

Drones could help cut the time it takes to get a defibrillator to people experiencing cardiac arrests when not in hospital, researchers have suggested.

In the UK alone, there are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests a year where emergency medical services attempt to resuscitate the individual, according to the British Heart Foundation. However, fewer than one in 10 people survive such an event, and some who do are left with neurological problems.

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