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New items added at Skyaid for July 1 -> Aug 24, 2001

Transportation & Airline   Skycar & VTOL  Medical    

Heart, AED, ICD   Heart Rate Variability  Trauma, Injury, Emergency

A second page contains the remaining topics - (single page was too long for language translation)

Stroke    Skyaid Watch    Elderly    Misc. 

Transportation and Airline  see also sections on Transportation,  Auto Accidents,  Airline, 

Airline Charts of Skycar  updated 08/07/01

FAA does not permit small airports to buy RADAR  WSJ   added 07/16/01
Which will be the greater barrier to Skyaid operation in the US? The FDA or the FAA?

Small airports could be good locations for initial Skycar operation in the U.S.  added 07/01/01 "98% of the U.S. population lives within a 30 minute drive of one of over 5,000 public-use landing facilities."  Bruce Holmes of NASA as quoted on page 42 of Freedom of the Skies article in Atlantic Monthly June 2001  See also, the new book by the author Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel   Reminder: only 30 or so of the largest U.S. airports are congested.

Las Vegas will have a 3.9 mile monorail in 2004 added 08/24/01

Coach-Class Syndrome Wall St. Journal Article    added 06/29/01
The conditions of conventional air travel create a health risk: 
   Sitting long time + Low Pressure + Dehydration.
Skycars having short pressurized trips with normal humidity would not have these conditions.

Skycar & VTOL   see also sections on Details, VTOL 

Skycar progress as of August, 2001 added 08/05/01

Skycar stability test photo of June 27
no details here or at Moller.

Skycar in July 2001 issue of Aerospace America magazine   updated 08/06/00
 A publication of AIAA . 6 pages on SATS includes 3/4 of a page on the Skycar.  SATS is NOT VTOL.  SATS goal: reduce travel time by half in 10 years and by two-thirds in 25 years, probably by using the 18,000 local airports not used by commercial jets.    
NASA seed money for SATS is $9 million for FY01.  NASA has four hypotheses:
   1) The public can safely operate a SATS vehicle in three dimensions, in nearly all weather, including abnormal operation
   2) The public can afford to ravel by SATS
   3) The SATS infrastructure is an affordable option for national transportation system investments
   4) SATS benefits all suburban, rural, and remote communities in terms of accessibility, mobility, 
           economic opportunity, environment, and quality of life.
For more on SATS see also Bushnell  Skyparks  Evaluation of Skycar Oct 00

Free Flight  book review - many people might fly from small airports in small planes in 10 years.  added 08/08/01

Skyparks There are now 450 skyparks in the U.S.  added 07/04/01 

QuickTime movies at Moller web site http://www.moller.com/news/media 
Anthony Z. described them as: " The Run-Up clip just has the Skycar sitting on the tarmac while the engineers throttle the engines from the computers controlling it close-by. The Nose-Lift clip shows the Skycar's nose being lifted by the two front engines. This video clip looks similar to the still photo that was posted on the site early this month.". I have been unable to view these on my computer so far.   added 06/26/01

Medical   see also Medical

Skyaid will be reducing 3 of the top 5 causes of death. 
from http://www2.survivalink.com/technical/arrest.html  
see also AED-SCD  
added 08/23/01

Off topic: Workplace deaths in British Columbia over 11 years: 59 fishing, 86 road building, 94 heavy manufacturing, 104 construction, 126 trucking, 252 logging, and 4,070 secondhand smoke (lung cancer and heart disease) which is 16X more than the second cause of workplace death    from nice web site:  http://www.airspace.bc.ca  It has a link to the American Heart Association's comment on Environmental Tobacco Smoke as well as many links to anti-tobacco sites  added 08/21/01

Off-subject: Real Medicare Reform Must End Price-Fixing Wall Street Journal  July 12

France's health system is rated #1 by the World Health Organization
but the French pay more taxes for health than they do for pension.   added 07/08/01

Diabetes article from U.S. News 6/25/01
Tells why diabetes increases risk of heart disease by 2X to 4x     added 07/06/01

Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy
vs. incidence of a specific Cancer add 15 quality adjusted life years 
at a cost of about $22,000 per year  added 06/30/01
from www-east.elsevier.com/ajg/issues/ 9408/ajg1276fla.htm

Heart, AED, ICD  see also Heart attack AED/CPR

More Heart Rate monitors  added 07/22/01
- with chest straps   
   http://www.odfs.com
    http://www.vernier.com/probes/ehr.html
    http://www.newsearching.com/heart_rate_monitor/heart_rate_monitor.html  a metasite!!
    http://www.myhealthpro.net/cgi-bin/dynitems.pl?file=heartratemonitors  12 - with pictures
    http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Sports/Fitness/Accessories/Heart_Monitors/  >20 at Google
http://www.smp.ca/smp_008.htm  no chest strap, but must put two fingers on the watch $129  US

Arrhythmias - 2nd edition, 2000, of 600 page book by John Kastor, M.D. This provides excellent insight into all of the different types of arrhythmias.  The book makes it clear that it will be impossible to make a Skyaid Watch with a fixed set of arrhythmia rules for everyone.  The Skyaid Watch will have to "train" itself to the wearer. added 08/25/01

Virtual Hospital has good descriptions of heart, and arrhythmia problems added 08/25/01

ICD/AED could provide pre-pulses to greatly reduce the impact of the main pulse.  added 08/24/01

AED - continuing education for nurses - 
comprehensive self study article, complete with a reading comprehension test. added 08/23/01

Hospital drug ($380/day) eases breathing by patients with congestive heart failure  added 08/14/01

Sudden Cardiac Arrests must be quickly responded to, even when they occur in hospitals  
Wall St. Journal Article Aug 3, 2001  added 08/04/01
One application of the Skyaid Watch would be to monitor hospital patients.

Cardiac Chaos- might enable making a gentle ICD?  added 07/07/01

U.S. V.P. Cheney now has an internal AED = ICD - news article and other references  added 07/01/01

Heart disease risk assessment interactive test at U.S. News  added 07/06/01

Cardiac care will cost US almost $300 billion in 2001.    added 07/08/01
Employers are starting to take proactive measures to reduce cardiac costs

AED meta-review of 101 journal articles in JAMA, March 2001 added 07/08/01

Heart attack patients survive more 
in 'teaching hospitals' which use aspirin and beta blocker more often   added 07/03/01

Chest pain is due to heart problems in less than half of the emergency room admissions added 07/03/01

Heart Attack risk may increase by 2.4 if working 11+ hours regularly added 07/03/01

Ischaemic Heart Disease Death rate varies by 5X over the world 
from www.oheschools.org/ ohech5pg5.html
added 06/30/01

Heart Rate Variability  see also HRV

Heart Rate Variability - Skyaid Watch-type device being developed to predict sudden cardiac arrest by another company - private communications for now - more news Oct 2001. added 08/25/01

Heart Rate Variability 18 recent abstracts  added 07/15/01

Heart Rate Variability Software 
www.adinstruments.com/cust/ products/software/hrv.html
added 06/30/01

Trauma, Injury, Emergency  see also Trauma,Injury, Emergency

Top air medical emergencies  
added 07/03/01

Injury is a global challenge   added 07/03/01
Injuries are the leading cause of death for those under age 24 in half of the countries
More than 10% of all global deaths are due to injuries.

Ambulance deliver patients to hospitals which pay them   added 07/19/01
private ambulances in NY are >10X more likely to bring passengers to hospitals which pay them   

Scoop and Run2  added 07/08/01
Three more discussions in British Medical Journal April 2000: tradeoff of delay at site 
to re-establish breathing vs. delay getting to hospital where people have more experience.

Scoop and Run ongoing debate by EMS and Hospitals
how much should be done at the emergency scene, vs. how quickly to get to the hospital
Skyaid will enable 'scoop and fly'  added 07/03/01

Rural roads deadlier than urban highways   added 8/16/01

E911 cell-phone location  Three technologies are trying to meet the FCC-US location requirement deadline.  It appears doubtful that any will. The Skyaid Watch will not require the E911 capability.  No indication of what, if anything, is happening elsewhere around the world.  added 07/01/01

Emergency numbers around the world 
from www.rcc.com/services.html
added 06/30/01

Stroke, Skyaid Watch, Elderly and Misc.  on 2nd page

                  Previous changes  May 15 -> July 2001