TORONTO, July 9, 2019 /CNW/ - Drone Delivery Canada
'DDC or the Company' (TSX.V:FLT, OTC – NASDAQ
INTL:TAKOF), is pleased to announce that Dr.
Sheldon Cheskes has joined DDC's
Advisory Board to assist in developing the Company's medical
applications commercial strategy.
Dr. Sheldon Cheskes is an
Associate Professor with the Division of Emergency Medicine,
Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also a scientist at
the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He is the Medical Director
for the Regions of Halton and Peel with the Sunnybrook Centre for
Prehospital Medicine. He is one of the principal investigators for
the Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC) and is a
recognized international authority in the area of CPR quality and
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Dr. Cheskes has
published over 80 manuscripts in high impact journals such as the
New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, CMAJ and
Resuscitation that have changed resuscitation practice around the
world.
Dr. Cheskes is currently leading the first study, exploring the
impact of remote ischemic conditioning to reduce reperfusion injury
in ST- elevation myocardial infarction, and is the principal
investigator of the DOuble Sequential External Defibrillation in
Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (DOSE VF) trial. This study
will be the first cluster randomized trial to clinically evaluate
two novel therapeutic defibrillation strategies (double sequential
external defibrillation and vector change defibrillation) against
standard practice for patients remaining in refractory ventricular
fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He is also
improving public access to defibrillation in rural and remote areas
through the use of community responder programs and drone delivery
of automated external defibrillators.
"We have been working with Dr. Cheskes for over two years in the
'AED on the Fly Program' which is a partnership between DDC and
Peel Regional Paramedic Services. The program utilizes DDC's
proprietary drone delivery platform to enable rapid first responder
technology via drone. On behalf of DDC we are very honoured to have
Dr. Cheskes join our team and look forward to the rapid
commercialization of this exciting vertical" commented Tony,
Di Benedetto, Business Strategy of
Drone Delivery Canada.
DDC has been conducting on-going trials of the AED on the Fly
program with Peel Regional Paramedic Services and will be providing
updates of progress shortly.
"The AED on the Fly Program' with Drone Delivery Canada
and Peel Regional Paramedic Service is a great collaboration
between cardiac arrest research and cutting-edge technology. The
ultimate goal of the program? Improving survival from out of
hospital cardiac arrest. DDC is leading the way in next
generation drone enabled first responder solutions and I am pleased
to help accelerate the commercialization of this life saving
technology.", commented Dr. Sheldon
Cheskes
About Drone Delivery Canada
Drone Delivery Canada is a drone technology company focused on
the design, development and implementation of its proprietary
logistics software platform, using drones. The Company's platform
will be used as Software as a Service (SaaS) for government and
corporate organizations.
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is a publicly listed company trading
on the TSX.V Exchange under the symbol FLT, on the U.S. OTC Q B
market with Nasdaq International Designation under the symbol TAKOF
and on the Frankfurt exchange in
Germany under the symbol
A2AMGZ.
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