In today’s post we bring you another project developed for our first edition of the Global Health Challenge: FAST, the First Aid Scooter Tech.
What is the problem and who is suffering because of it?
This development is a solution for a problem in many cities, in which due to the overcrowded traffic and bad infrastructures, the ambulances are sometimes not able to reach medical emergencies on time.
FAST (First Aid Scooter Tech) has been created to provide adequate first-aid to anyone who needs time-sensitive medical treatment, in order to increase the survival rates after accidents or emergencies.
The solution:
The idea is to adapt the rear box of the scooters and convert it in a first-aid medical box, as you can see in the picture below. The content of the boxes includes these three main medical fields: diagnostics, consumption and ventilation/suction.
Furthermore, some special features of the boxes are:
- A cover as a blanket, which can also assure a more hygienic treatment.
- Functional module bags
- Practical box design
- Phone maintenance App, with a checklist that is updated after each use
FAST is thought to be used in addition to existing ambulances. The improvement is that it would allow a doctor or a nurse to reach the emergency location in the first place and start with the manoeuvres of the first aid as soon as possible.
The team
- Mira Mahavadi
- Thao Mai
- Melanie Niebuhr
- Helga Ritzl
- Ottavia Rossini
