We are not talking about a gun designed to discharge Special K (ketamine) darts into an orangutan running from the zoo’s rhinoceroses. This prototype invention by Miami anesthesiologist Dr. John Lafferty is designed to unload medications into living patients, in a programmed and recordable manner. Imagine a busy scenario of ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support), or trauma patients in the field: make sure the weapon is locked and loaded with a single ACLS cartridge of meds in sequence, and fire away.
“I invented the Dragon to pump multiple drugs very rapidly into patients to save their lives,” states Lafferty. “It’s small and portable, so it can be used anywhere–by medics in Iraq, by doctors in the ER and the OR, or by EMTs at a car crash,” says Lafferty. “In a triage situation with large numbers of sick or injured patients, the Gun will increase staff efficiency, since it can administer up to 6 drug cartridges from a single dispensing system. Because the Gun records the timing and dosage of meds, it’s easy to track the medications given without having someone do that manually. This means that a relatively small number of medical personnel can treat a large number of patients with less risk of human error.”
Please, just don’t go postal on your patients!
Press release: NEW GUNS THAT SAVE LIVES …
Product page: Dragon Drug Gun – The only gun that saves lives. …
