Jet suit paramedic tested in the Lake District 'could save lives'

[krtek a houby]

A frozen Ritz cracker.

It's all very DC Thomson

 

[kebabking]

It's all very DC Thomson

It's jet pack paramedics, not peer review academia.

Joyless arse.

 

[bimble]

"will soon go on sale" ? excellent news. I do not see the problem with it taking two hours to get dressed because if i had that I'd just wear it the whole time, to the shops, going upstairs, getting out of bed in the morning would be easier. What is the problem.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's jet pack paramedics, not peer review academia.

Joyless arse.

Was whooping with joy when it was on the bulletins, tbf.

 

[andysays]

Thought air ambulance was structured the way it is to minimise the amount of safety says no, same as lifeboats Still, glad I got to the lake disrict before it was jet pacs and drones. Progress though,, tomorrow's world gets a little bit closer. Which is handy if you are stuck up a mountain and have been waiting for someone with a jetpac to turn up since the millennium.

If we're talking lifeboats, should be the jet ski paramedic.

 

[maomao]

Am I the only one who reads the title and thinks it’s something to do with French ambulance men

It's better than the 'burr hole' surgery thread which I keep reading as butt hole (and is far too serious to make this comment on).

 

[WouldBe]

in the majority of cases people in trouble will have people with them, defibs are designed to be used by idiots and talk you through each step, you wouldn’t need a paramedic there. Drones themselves can be remotely piloted, wouldn’t even necessarily need a local operator once rules are accepted that don’t require line of sight operation. Much more likely to go this way than the inefficient method of moving humans around with jets.

(though yeah, jet packs would be really fun!)

If you fitted the drones with armaments you could fire hypodermic darts to deliver drugs as well.

 

[WouldBe]

It's better than the 'burr hole' surgery thread which I keep reading as butt hole (and is far too serious to make this comment on).

That's a convoluted route to get to the brain.

 

[LDC]

in the majority of cases people in trouble will have people with them, defibs are designed to be used by idiots and talk you through each step, you wouldn’t need a paramedic there. Drones themselves can be remotely piloted, wouldn’t even necessarily need a local operator once rules are accepted that don’t require line of sight operation. Much more likely to go this way than the inefficient method of moving humans around with jets.

(though yeah, jet packs would be really fun!)

Drone delivered defibs (AEDs, there's manual ones used by paramedics, doctors, etc. that are more complicated) already been trialed and are now used in Sweden (and others places I expect).

Could a defibrillator drone save lives?

Drones could reach people suffering cardiac arrest faster than ambulances, according to a new trial.

www.bbc.co.uk

Drones join emergency care front line in Sweden with defibrillator drops

Getting defibrillators to cardiac arrest patients as quickly as possible is a priority for emergency services everywhere. In one area of Sweden, 112 call takers will soon be able to dispatch a drone at the same time as an ambulance to drop a defibrillator near the patient if they suspect a...

www.mobihealthnews.com

Drone delivery of an automated external defibrillator – a mixed method simulation study of bystander experience - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects some 275,000 individuals in Europe each year. Time from collapse to defibrillation is essential for survival. As emergency medical services (EMS) response times in Sweden have increased, novel methods are needed to facilitate early...

sjtrem.biomedcentral.com

Autonomous Drones are Now Delivering Defibrillators to 80,000 Residents in Sweden

/PRNewswire/ -- Everdrone, a global leader in autonomous drone technology, today announced it is now deploying a drone system that delivers Automated External...

www.prnewswire.co.uk

There's some amazing uses of drones etc. for medical purposes, it'll be a big area in the future. There's a great project somewhere in Africa that delivers blood and medications that need refrigerated storage via drones from a central base to areas where the electricity supply is non-existent or unreliable.

 

[Spymaster]

When mrsb was picked up in an air ambulance the pilot (or a paramedic, someone who got off the helicopter anyway) told us that that was why they didn’t want to be an official emergency service, the h&s would make it too expensive and significantly slower.

I’m thinking more the mode of transport than the service. All powered transport is regulated isn’t it. Cars and motorbikes are subject to MOTs, user licensing, emissions regulation, safety standards, etc. I would expect jet packs to be somewhat similar, rather than like cycles where any cunt can just hop on and pedal away. But adding in the fact that it is a service complicates things further. The things would need to be insured and operated to a set of standards that probably aren’t in place yet. The main point being that I see these as sophisticated aircraft rather than any-twat-can-use-one skateboards, and they’ll be subject to the attendant rules and regulation.

 

[two sheds]

anyone else read the title as the paramedic's been tested for coronavirus as part of track and trace?




/goes and lies down for a while

 

[likesfish]

These look more fun.

Can't take off its basically falling with style.
The Royal marines played with those for boarding ships

 

[Saul Goodman]

Can't take off its basically falling with style.
The Royal marines played with those for boarding ships

 

[D'wards]

Everytime this thread comes up on top of the page I read it as "Je Suis Paramedic"

Tres bien

 

[Saul Goodman]

Everytime this thread comes up on top of the page I read it as "Je Suis Paramedic"

Tres bien

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that already

 

[two sheds]

You'd think people would at least read the thread before replying

 

[D'wards]

You'd think people would at least read the thread before replying

Shan't!

 

[andysays]

Everytime this thread comes up on top of the page I read it as "Je Suis Paramedic"

Tres bien

In a very real way, nous sommes tous paramedics

 

[Serge Forward]

Everytime this thread comes up on top of the page I read it as "Je Suis Paramedic"

Tres bien

Je suis deja vu.

 

[skyscraper101]

Everytime this thread comes up on top of the page I read it as "Je Suis Paramedic"

Tres bien

Same here.

Le sigh

 

[bimble]

these jet packs are basically what i thought the future would look like. in every other way its been a disappointment but these are great.

VIDEO: British Royal Marines explore possibility of storming a ship at sea with jet packs

Gravity Industries personnel working with the Royal Marines demonstrated how this technology could be used for maritime boarding operations.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[bimble]

Gravity Industries

Gravity Flight Club – Join the Jet Suit community making human flight a reality. Experience first hand the ultimate freedom of true flight.

gravity.co

you can have a go on them! (for six grand)

 

[MickiQ]

these jet packs are basically what i thought the future would look like. in every other way its been a disappointment but these are great.

VIDEO: British Royal Marines explore possibility of storming a ship at sea with jet packs

Gravity Industries personnel working with the Royal Marines demonstrated how this technology could be used for maritime boarding operations.

www.businessinsider.com

It looks seriously cool but I would imagine if there was someone shooting at you whilst you were trying to do it, it would be fairly risky.

 

[platinumsage]

It looks seriously cool but I would imagine if there was someone shooting at you whilst you were trying to do it, it would be fairly risky.

Probably less risky then climbing up the side or hanging from a helicopter.

 

[bimble]

theyre probably incredibly loud. It seems not impossible that within our lifetimes these will become available, for commuters.

 

[platinumsage]

I wonder what the CO2 emissions are per mile.

 

[MickiQ]

theyre probably incredibly loud. It seems not impossible that within our lifetimes these will become available, for commuters.

I can't really see that myself. I suspect the endurance isn't that great so you probably couldn't commute very far and it would be a massive pain going home on the tube with it if you couldn't refuel at work.
I can certainly see them being used for specialised applications such as the flying paramedics and military special forces but the only chance the public are going to get to use one is whizzing around a deserted quarry for a fee, unless you're someone who's rich enough to buy both a jet pack and somewhere big enough to fly it.
I would imagine a lot of them being used over cities by basically untrained commuters would be carnage with flyers crashing into buildings and each other.

I wonder what the CO2 emissions are per mile.

Very high I would imagine but it will give teuchter something to moan about so there is that.

 

[bellaozzydog]

It’s an invention looking for a problem

Pure gimmick the Sinclair C5 of the 2020’s

Guy’s gonna run out of steam at some point

 

[Serge Forward]

Jet packs are old hat, anti-grav suits are the way forward.

 

[elbows]

theyre probably incredibly loud. It seems not impossible that within our lifetimes these will become available, for commuters.

Clues are to be found in the fact that Rocket Man type fantasy stuff in the movies and on tv very many decades ago were not reliable guides as to what people could expect normal life to consist of in the decades that followed.