A drone transports for the first time an organ suitable for transplantation

To get and move an organ that can save a life, every minute counts. This is well known to Dr. Joseph Scalea, a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland, who had to wait for 29 hours for a vital organ transfer to Alabama, United States.

Scalea has been collaborating with doctors, aerospace engineers and health transport experts for years to create a drone system that makes organ transport more dynamic, faster and more efficient, saving a large number of people. lives.

Nowadays, the sanitary transport of organs is one of the most complex problems of the medical world.

But technology is helping us more and more to deal with complex problems like these. On April 19, a drone brought a kidney from St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore to the Medical Center at the University of Maryland.
Although it is a short flight, about three kilometers in a straight line, it is proof of the effectiveness of the transport of a life-saving element.

The drone was not only able to guarantee the stability of the flight (it has eight rotors), but also to maintain the temperature and the barometric pressure constant, to control the altitude, to neutralize the vibrations and to constantly monitor the location of the portable refrigerator.

The patient who received the organ is Trina Glispy, a 44-year-old nursing badistant from Baltimore, who has three children. After 8 years of dialysis and in the expectation of a transplant, Glispy was released a few days after the transplant.

Prior to this important theft, he had been trying to carry saline, blood samples and other types of medical equipment. Even, according to what they said at the university, it had been tested with live kidneys, but it was not viable for a transplant.