Ben Hamilton
July 14th, 2022

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Speed is the difference between life and death (photo: Richard Unten)

A drone carrying a defibrillator operated by Region North Jutland was dispatched for its very first time on Tuesday after a man had a heart attack in Aalborg.

Just seven minutes after the emergency services were notified, the drone arrived at the scene of the cardiac arrest.

A success
While an ambulance was even quicker and managed to revive the man, emergency centre co-ordinator Jan Lindberg hailed the rapid response as a success.

“All technical elements went as they should on the flight of the defibrillator,” he told nordjyske.dk.

Good prospects
The success of the project – which has the backing of the Capital Region’s Emergency Preparedness Centre, Den Præhospitale Virksomhed, Karolinska Instituttet and Everdrone – will determine whether the pilot is extended across the whole country.

The survival rate of people who have cardiac arrests is 15 percent, but in highly frequented areas around 50 percent.

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