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Published on April 30th, 2019 |
by Steve Hanley
Autonomous Drone Delivers Human Kidney Successfully
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April 30th, 2019 by Steve Hanley
In a first of its kind event, an unmanned aircraft successfully delivered a human kidney to an operating room where it was transplanted to save a person’s life. An organ transplant requires rapid transportation between the donor and the recipient. The faster the journey, the higher the chance of success.
Credit: University of Maryland Medical Center/University of Maryland School of Medicine
The flight took place on April 19, 2019 and was a collaboration between transplant physicians and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore; aviation and engineering experts at the University of Maryland; the University of Maryland Medical Center; and collaborators at the..
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