Defibrillator drone helps save Swedish heart attack patient

An autonomous drone packing a defibrillator helped save a man in Sweden, having a heart attack, arriving within minutes of a distress call. — REUTERS

An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save the life of a 71-year-old man who suffered a cardiac arrest in Sweden, the man and the drone operator said Friday.

Emergency services dispatched the drone followed by an ambulance when Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed in early December while shovelling snow outside his home in the western town of Trollhattan.