To combat cardiac arrests that kill 60,000 Italians every year, the defibrillator will arrive from the sky, with a drone, directly from the 118 Operations Center. When cardiac arrest occurs, it is essential that the defibrillator reaches the patient as quickly as possible. And so, pending the definitive go-ahead of the law that will bring defibrillators everywhere, the 118 “Cardioprotection area dependent time of the national community” project called Seuam, Sanitary emergency urban air mobility, was born.
Balzanelli: “Salvation can come from heaven”
«It is a question of buying time – said Mario Balzanelli, national president of Sis 118, the Italian company system 118 – or these lives are lost. Heart massage should be performed immediately and the electrical shock of a defibrillator delivered within the first 3 – 5 minutes after the onset of arrest. Salvation can come from the sky with drones that immediately bring a defibrillator where needed, on sudden cardiac arrest scenarios, or even blood products (such as plasma) in the event of a very serious traumatic event in which there is hemorrhagic shock “. The defibrillator can save lives, as happened to the Danish number 10 Christian Eriksen, defibrillated on the pitch after cardiac arrest during the match against Finland at Euro 2020. The 29-year-old has now started the rehabilitation phase after hospitalization and ‘implantation of a subcutaneous cardiac defibrillator at the’ Rigsh ‘hospital in Copenhagen.
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Mulè: “Defibrillators reach everywhere from the sky, land or sea”
In the meantime, the pressure continues so that the bill quickly becomes law to bring defibrillators everywhere, within reach as fire extinguishers are today. “Any initiative that goes in the direction of quickly bringing defibrillators everywhere from the air, land or sea is welcome. As already happens, for example, with taxis in Rome, Genoa or Turin, the defibrillator can also arrive from the sky with drones: it seems pioneering, but that’s okay “, underlines Giorgio Mulè, Undersecretary of Defense and first signatory of the bill that he wants to take defibrillators everywhere. Ddl that awaits only the final green light of the Chamber to become law of the State. A law of civilization, so that anyone has the possibility of being saved with a timely intervention. On the timing of the final approval of the law, Mulè announced, the Social Affairs Committee of the Chamber “has already requested the binding opinions of the ministries and before the summer break the law will be definitively dismissed by Montecitorio. There is a real pressure from the government, from me and from the commission in its unanimity. The direction is right and therefore we must also set sail towards initiatives that seem futuristic, but which in reality can be realized ».
Experience advanced pre-hospital care
As an Italian 118 system company, explained the president of Sis 118 Balzanelli, “we believe it is indispensable and indispensable to prepare and soon test an advanced pre-hospital rescue system that makes available to anyone a defibrillator that arrives in the right place, in front of the right patient, at the right time, integrating the arrival time dynamics of employees of the 118 System rescue vehicles and crews with the sending of drones, coordinated and guided in real time by the 118 Operations Center, which bring immediately, i.e. in a few minutes, to the scene of the event, to the requesting aid in the event of sudden cardiac arrest, or a defibrillator “.
Cardiac arrest causes 50% of cardiovascular mortality
Today cardiac arrest determines 50% of cardiovascular mortality, which in turn represents the first cause of death ever in humans. Countering the “massacre of sudden death”, underlined Mario Balzanelli, “therefore represents the first and most important institutional mandate of the Territorial Emergency System 118”. An immediate and uninterrupted heart massage and the electric shock delivered by a defibrillator within the first 5 minutes of cardiac arrest have a high probability of fully “recovering” to life, Balzanelli underlines, “at least 25 thousand of the 60 thousand Italians who die suddenly every year in Italy. Thus, it is a question of rapidly creating a system of treatment for sudden cardiac arrest in our country that includes, involves and actively empowers the entire national community ”.