Last Saturday, March 29, researchers from the Nursing and Innovation in Health Care research group (CTS-464) together with professionals from 061 carried out a practical exercise with drones in the covered sports hall of our university to explore the possibilities of these unmanned aerial vehicles in the field of health emergencies.
A simulated scenario with ten victims was set up, in which drones were used to assess the location and condition of the victims using the ARTS remote triage algorithm, in addition to assessing and identifying potentially lethal hemorrhages. This remote casualty triage system is intended to be useful in multi-casualty accidents where initial access to the accident is impossible or dangerous for rescuers. Detection of hemorrhage in these scenarios is of vital importance to classify these patients with the highest priority and even indicate to other injured in the scenario to make a direct compression of the wound, if possible, as this can preserve life.
This simulation is a first stage of the teaching innovation project “Simulation, assessment and identification of exsanguinating hemorrhages in remote” whose objectives are to train in the use of the ARTS triage system, to identify the different types of hemorrhage and their severity, to know the different interventions indicated in the care of people suffering a hemorrhage in out-of-hospital emergencies and to evaluate the capacity of drone technology as a health tool for health professionals in training to identify lethal hemorrhages.
This work is part of the project Drones for Triage in health emergencies.
