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Medical Briefcase For In-Flight Patient Evaluation
Makarand writes "On average one plane a day makes an unscheduled landing somewhere around
the world when a passenger unexpectedly falls ill and requires medical
attention. Diversion costs for an airline, related to fuel
expenses and cost of putting people in hotels, can be anywhere between
$50,000- $100,000 for each diversion. Now Airbus, in collaboration
with the French Space agency, has come up with a solution in the form
of a satellite-connected medical briefcase to determine if the patient needs urgent medical attention on the ground before making a diversion
according to this
BBC News article. A crew member
with proper training can use the device to complete a medical examination
of the patient in 2 minutes and download the data using satellite in
real time to a hospital. A diversion is made if the emergency physician feels that the patient needs medical attention on the ground. Airbus believes that as planes
get bigger, fuel efficient and fly longer hours with more number of
people the chances of someone needing medical attention will increase
creating a market for this device."
satellite connection huh?
Good thing I'm not in charge of it...
"this man needs urgent medical attention!"
"yeah yeah, hang on, just wait for this mp3 to finish downloading."
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Anyone agree the new Hooters airline might need one of these?
Of course, if they do get one, how many guys are going to fake it in order to be examined?
A crew member with proper training can use the device to complete a medical examination of the patient in 2 minutes
Hopefully this will not be the "proper training" which lets people believe that a newly trained MCSE should have "root" access.
or perhaps even taking a slower, more eco-friendly and safer form of transport (hint: trains).
;)
Gotta love those eco-friendly trans-atlantic train lines
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