{"id":90124,"date":"2019-04-29T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/doctors-used-a-drone-to-deliver-a-vital-kidney-transplant-in-historic-flight"},"modified":"2019-04-29T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:42:21","slug":"doctors-used-a-drone-to-deliver-a-vital-kidney-transplant-in-historic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/doctors-used-a-drone-to-deliver-a-vital-kidney-transplant-in-historic-flight","title":{"rendered":"Doctors used a drone to deliver a vital kidney transplant in historic flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RNYCCbCpAlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drones might be a favorite toy among adults with significant disposable income, but they\u2019ve also proven to be incredibly useful as tools, and sometimes life-saving ones at that. The latest example of this growing trend comes to us from the University of Maryland Medical Center, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umms.org\/ummc\/news\/2019\/pioneering-breakthrough-unmanned-aircraft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a medical drone delivered a kidney<\/a> that was subsequently successfully transplanted into a patient.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery, which was documented in a brief YouTube video published by UMMC, is just a small first step in a larger effort to enhance the delivery systems used for vital items like organs and other medical materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2019\/04\/29\/drone-organ-delivery-ummc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones might be a favorite toy among adults with significant disposable income, but they\u2019ve also proven to be incredibly useful as tools, and sometimes life-saving ones at that. The latest example of this growing trend comes to us from the University of Maryland Medical Center, where a medical drone delivered a kidney that was subsequently [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}