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Drones Cut Cardiac Response Time Below 3 Minutes

Two minutes and eighteen seconds — that's how long it took University of Warwick researchers to deploy a life-saving defibrillator by drone during recent trials with the Welsh Ambulance Service. Over 40,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the UK. This breakthrough in drone-delivered defibrillators represents a fundamental shift in emergency response capability.

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