Experimental Delivery by Drone of Transfusion Blood (Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital)

A team led by Dr. Yakushiji of Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital conducted “Experimental delivery by drone of transfusion blood” on the Runway at Fukushima Robot Test Field.

This experiment conducted by the Japanese Red Cross Society and research institutes is a 2019 research project entitled “Research on Blood Delivery by Drone” (Task management number: 47, Receipt number: 31J0017), in accordance with the “Policy on the Use of Transfusion Blood, etc. in Research and Development.”

(http://www.jrc.or.jp/activity/blood/koubo/)

Details of this experiment were to be reported at the Kanto-Koshinetsu Branch meeting of the Japan Society of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy in September 2019. They were also submitted to a European academic journal.