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Drones at the service of the transport of organs for transplants: test in Turin

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The potential of drones has been talked about for a while, with online shopping deliveries that seem the next step in a process that will see remotely piloted aircraft increasingly used for commercial purposes. But not only. Also organs for transplants, blood and plasma for transfusions.

There is no doubt that, being able to fly in the sky, drones are much more efficient than traditional means of transport, avoiding long traffic queues in the city and in the most inaccessible areas the roads that are often impracticable on rubber or even absent.

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2019 was the year that a drone first delivered a kidney to the transplant team at the Baltimore hospital. According to what obtained from the experiment, wanted by Dr. Scalea (surgeon of the Medical Center of the University of Maryland) and created in collaboration with the same university, the organ not only remained at a stable temperature of 2.5 degrees centigrade during the various journeys, but even the biometric sensor present in the cargo showed that the organ was exposed to a lower number of vibrations than those generally encountered during transport on land.

After that first historic delivery, others followed in the United States and China, further and decisive steps forward on the path of using drones for the delivery of blood samples, organs and any other highly perishable cargo that could make a difference. between a person’s life and death.

In Italy nothing like this has ever been done, but the time is ripe for experimentation with the ambitious Indoor project (usINg Drones for Organ tRansportation) which aims to experiment with the use of drones for the transport of biological material. and organs for transplants. An experiment started thanks to the contribution of the DOT (Organ Donation and Transplantation) foundation in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin, the City of Health and the University of Turin.

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