Testing the delivery of human organ transportation with drones in the real world

Andrew T Sage^{1

2}, Marcelo Cypel^{1

2

3}, Mikael Cardinal⁴, Jimmy Qiu⁵, Atul Humar^{1

2}, Shaf Keshavjee^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Unither Bioelectronics Inc., Bromont, QC, Canada.
⁵ Techna, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Review

Andrew T Sage et al. Sci Robot. 2022.

. 2022 Dec 21;7(73):eadf5798.

doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.adf5798. Epub 2022 Dec 21.

Andrew T Sage^{1

2}, Marcelo Cypel^{1

2

3}, Mikael Cardinal⁴, Jimmy Qiu⁵, Atul Humar^{1

2}, Shaf Keshavjee^{1

2

3}

¹ Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Unither Bioelectronics Inc., Bromont, QC, Canada.
⁵ Techna, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Last-mile transportation of human donor lungs in a densely populated urban environment has been made possible with drones.