363300login-checkHow a drone saved this Canadian patient’slife, who was waiting for a lung transplant |
It took less than 10 minutes for a drone to make an emergency 1.2 kilometer trip to deliver a set of lungs needed for a life-saving transplant.
This world-first took place at the end of September, in Toronto, Canada, AFP reported.
The drone flew over the skies of the Canadian metropolis in the middle of the night, taking off from the UHN’s Toronto Western Hospital and landing on the roof of the General Hospital.
The operation was made possible due to a refrigerated container in light carbon fibre which maintains the thermal parameters of the organ so that it is viable for transplantation.
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363300login-checkHow a drone saved this Canadian patient’slife, who was waiting for a lung transplant |