Stories of Emergency Use of Mobile Devices
From: Emergency Management last accessed 04.16.15
“A software developer in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, created the free 911HelpSMS app, which informs a user of where he is located before he calls 911 in a medical emergency. It also instantly texts multiple family members and gives them the person’s GPS location.”
“…. free app called EMNet finderER was developed Massachusetts General Hospital. It allows users, including sick people, EMTs, doctors and caregivers, to quickly locate the nearest hospital in an emergency, whether they’re in a part of town they’re not familiar with or they’re on vacation.”
“We’ve received great feedback from EMTs who have used the app on long transports when the patient gets unexpectedly worse and needs to go immediately to the nearest ER,” Dr. Carlos Camargo, a professor of emergency medicine at Mass General and Harvard Medical School, said in an email. “We’ve also heard from parents of children with food allergies, thanking us for creating the app that saved their child’s life.”
From: “Buried in Haiti rubble, U.S. dad wrote goodbyes” TODAY, msnbc.com. Author: Mike Celizic, 1/19/2010, last accessed 04.16.15
Dan Woolley, American filmmaker, was caught under a pile of rubble after the Haiti. Earthquake. He injured his leg and his head. A first aid app on his I phone instructed him on the best way to create a tourniquet for his leg and a bandage for his head. It even warned him against falling asleep after a head trauma, so he set his phone’ alarm to go off every 20 minutes as a precaution. The strategies worked, because he survived long enough to be rescued 65 hours later.
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