Medics at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust have launched a pilot scheme where drones will be used to courier blood samples between its hospitals.

The NHS is going to use drones to fly blood samples across London to avoid the traffic.

Drone flights will mean the samples can be transported in a fraction of the time it currently takes couriers via road, officials said.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot scheme that intends to drastically speed up the time taken to move blood from major hospitals in the capital to labs for analysis.

Usually, moving samples between Guy’s Hospital and the lab at St Thomas’ Hospital takes more than half an hour on the road.

However, the same journey can be done in less than two minutes by drone, officials said.

The research team also said there were environmental benefits to the switch in transport methods.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    There’s no way a drone like this makes more noise than a truck. At 50 meters up, they’re virtually undetectable.

    • talEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198898/

      Available literature suggests that drone noise is substantially more annoying than road traffic or aircraft noise at the same level. This shows that available exposure–response curves, e.g., to predict the probability of high annoyance to aircraft noise [57], are hardly transferable to drone noise.

      I mean, if it doesn’t bother you, maybe no prob.

      • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        at the same level

        I have a hard time believing that the decibel level of a drone will come close to that of road noise. They operate much farther from people than vehicles do.