December 22, 2016
Mayo Clinic Medical Transport Adds Specialized Plane to Its Fleet
By In the Loop
While a certain red sled usually owns the flight-related headlines this month, Santa’s sleigh isn’t the only one getting press this December. Several news outlets, it seems, are reporting on another vehicle taking flight. But instead of delivering toys to good girls and boys, the new Mayo One airplane delivers patients in need of immediate, […]
Tags: Dr. Scott Zietlow, Lisa Jelinek, Mayo Clinic Medical Transport, Mayo One, Thomas Grandouiller
April 7, 2015
Drone On: Things May Be Looking Up for Delivery of Medical Supplies
By In the Loop
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones, for us civilians) to deliver medical supplies is not really new. In fact, if you hover long enough over this recent post on mayoclinic.org, you’ll find that drones were used to deliver aid packages in Haiti after the 2012 earthquake and transport “dummy TB test samples” from a small […]
Tags: Dr. Cornelius Thiels, Dr. Donald Jenkins, Dr. Johnathon Aho, Dr. Scott Zietlow, Drones