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This electric aircraft could cut emergency response times in half for patients in rural areas (www.deseret.com)

submitted 3 days ago by solo@slrpnk.net to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Pulse is a piloted aircraft that can transport a medic or EMT trained to pilot it. The pilot flies while standing up and looks out a large window to see where to go and land.

Instead of picking patients up and taking them to a hospital, Pulse allows help to arrive quicker than current technology does.

“They fly themselves to the scene of the emergency, they get out with their life-saving equipment and they go and they stabilize the patient,” Dietrich said. “They stay with the patient until the ambulance shows up, and then oftentimes they’ll actually go with the patient because they know the most about the patient at that moment.”

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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What if they need any one of the hundreds of pounds of equipment and drugs that'll still be in the ambulance?

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If I got your question right, this would be the answer

And it’s not meant to replace ambulances or helicopters. “It’s meant to be a complementary technology,” he said. Getting medical help to patients in rural areas faster while they wait for transportation to arrive can shave off crucial minutes and save lives.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social -2 points 3 days ago

and what you are failing to realize is... How is that different than there simply being a bystander that understands the concepts of CPR and BASIC first-aid?!?!

This is NOTHING but a product to be sold to morons that do not understand the most basic fundamentals of first aid and how available such skills SHOULD be amongst the populace.

If the difference between life and death is someone who has NO SUPPORTING EQUIPMENT WHAT SO EVER and some random bystandter being there ... you're already fucked by a society that does not respect basic understanding of anything...

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have completely and utterly missed the entire point of the question I asked. I DO NOT ask about whether an abulance is en route, but I ask what if they need things that are on that wheel-based ambulance??

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Then they wait.

Do you understand that your position is just like saying, but what if there's something in the hospital that the wheel based ambulance doesn't have!!

There are already "lightweight" critical care responders in small cars and motorbikes and such. Just a more agile mode of transport for those folk.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It does not replace the ambulance, which is still enroute when the aircraft arrives.

Just like the cycling medics in London who can sometimes arrive faster than the ambulance.

When human hybernation emerges, these very-first responders will be able to put someone into hibernation while the ambulance makes its way.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social -1 points 3 days ago

That's ... not in any way what so ever how human bodies will EVER respond to critical damage... Though I commend your ability to appear to be high as fuck without admitting to smoking anything!