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A 71-year-old Swedish man who suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in his driveway was saved by an unlikely hero - a delivery drone.
Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed outside his home in the western town of Trollhättan in early December.
Within moments of receiving the call from Sven's wife, emergency services dispatched the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying an AED, or automated external defibrillator, which arrived in less than four minutes.
The system, called Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery (EMADE), was developed by Everdrones to assist patients within 10 minutes of experiencing cardiac arrest.
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A 71-year-old Swedish man who suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in his driveway was saved by an unlikely hero - a delivery drone
'Everything from the first 112 call to the drone getting the signal to start and go took about 15-30 seconds and then the whole process took about three and a half minutes,' Sven told AFP.
An AED is a computerized medical device that can detect a person's heart rhythm and deliver a shock to the heart as needed.
And it needs to be used within four to six minutes of the person
