EMS Today 2019

Drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in EMS & Public Safety (#E0561) (Room 207CD)

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This powerful session will look at real-world public safety applications of Drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how they may benefit your agency in the future. Andreas Claesson, PhD, RN, EMT-P, will present his research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in Sweden to facilitate early defibrillation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Rural areas of Stockholm typically have prolonged EMS response times, but drones carrying AEDs can reach patients 19 minutes sooner than ground response units. Dr. Claesson will also discuss how the use of drones in OHCA due to drowning, has been tested in simulated settings, as well as using drones to facilitate the delivery of flotation devices to swimmers in distress.  

Douglas Spotted Eagle will present case studies on how drones are being used in public safety applications and discuss key operational considerations, including regulatory requirements, best practices of implementation, and identifying and mitigating risk. He will also share some cutting-edge applications for using drones, such as crowd management and delivering emergency supplies or floatation devices.


Andreas Cleve, CEO of Corti.ai will tell you how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now equip people and public institutions to better handle imperative problems by converting “conversations” and turning a massive amount of stored/absorb data into actionable insights that advances the art of decision-making, seamlessly.

By using the AI program to help make important choices, personnel can get to the appropriate response faster and be more accurate in their diagnosis, since the AI can find causality where humans cannot; seamlessly validating information in the background as every call develops.

The future is now! Don’t miss this amazing session on the future of EMS!