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This electric aircraft could cut emergency response times in half for patients in rural areas (www.deseret.com)
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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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[–] 6 points 3 months ago

Uh huh

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    "Not if we the fossil fuel producers can stop it!"

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 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??

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    lol no. How dumb are you? This is BEFORE any medical professionals arrive... (or rather, the first) How the FUCK would anyone have access to hospital quality equipment before even EMTs arrive?!

    This is DIRECTLY a question of what equipment they have... What do you understand of medical treatment, let alone EMT stabilization? An EMT is not a magician. They CANNOT fix MANY problems they arrive at. That's half the fucking reason it's such a tough job!! They LITERALLY CANNOT save many people they arrive at. WITH an ambulance's level of equipment.

    The fuck is your goal? Traumatize MORE EMTs because you're too stupid to understand what treatments are medically relevant? Fuck you.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months 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...

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    "Pulse can cover 2,800 square miles in under eight minutes and land on rocky terrain"

    I highly doubt that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    "Pulse can cover 2,800 square miles in under eight minutes and land on rocky terrain"

    30 x 30 x 3.14 = about 2800.

    So it's got a 30 mile radius, in 8 minutes, that's 225 mph.

    So it's pretty speedy, but it's range is limited. I am assuming that it also has enough juice to be able to fly back.

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