Innovative project in collaboration with SIS 118
di Francesca Zinghini
Time is precious and is a determining factor in saving a life. Rescue methods change thanks to the arrival of SEUAM, Sanitary Emergency Urban Air Mobility, the drone in support of the 118 Operations Centers to speed up rescue and resuscitation interventions in critical situations. An initiative born from the collaboration between the Italian Society System 118 (SIS 118) and institutional partners, including theCampus Bio-Medico University of Rome.
"This is a highly innovative project - ofchiara il prof. Eugenio Felice Agrò, Director of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation – An once operational, the uses and applications of the drone can be many: can carry, in urgency/emergency, blood samples for pre-transfusion tests or units of blood components, life-saving and non-life-saving drugs, surgical sets. For example, if a person with diabetes has a hyperglycemia crisis and passes out in the house, we put on the third floor of a building, the 118 team can call the operations center and the drone, in just 3 minutes, it will arrive at the window with the life-saving insulin. Or if in the hospital a patient arrives in need of an urgent intervention but the tools surgical necessary are all already in use, you can activate 118 and ask a other hospital the set of surgical instruments that lacks. Thanks to the drone, the kit will arrive in within a few minutes".
Seuam is therefore part of a scientific experimentation from the high technological standard that will revolutionize the processes of diagnosis and care for effective, efficient healthcare, appropriate, quality and above all in of your digital ecosystem. . "A Health Technology Assessment (HTA) study can demonstrate that the project not only has advantages in terms of speed and speed of rescue on the territory but also of cost-benefit because the use of the drone allows a huge savings – explains the prof. Agrò – avoids the creation and maintenance of smart blood bank fridges, i -80° which have a very high cost, the rental or purchase of many vehicles on wheels, the maintenance of vehicles and equipment, the number of operators driving, but also the reduction the risk of contagion in the Covid era e not only that, the improvement of the prognosis of accident victims".
