Safe Ride Standards for Casualty Evacuation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Normes de transport sans danger pour l'evacuation des blesses par vehicules aeriens sans pilote)

Abstract

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has dramatically increased in recent years, and they are now being developed and used for many purposes beyond the ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting and Reconnaissance) functions for which they are most well known. Since studies are now underway in the use of these vehicles for logistics purposes, the question has arisen as to whether they could be used for Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC). The HFM-184 Task Group has carefully considered operational, clinical, ethical, and legal aspects of this question, and has determined that the use of UAVs for casualty evacuation can be justified and may be potentially beneficial for the casualty under carefully-defined circumstances. The RTG, initially sceptical, now considers that UAVs in the casualty evacuation role are a potentially viable modality, the development of which should be encouraged.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA593136

Entities

Organizations

  • NATO Science and Technology Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Control Systems
  • Health Services
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Medical Personnel
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs