A US filmmaker who lay trapped beneath Haiti's earthquake rubble for nearly three days survived in part thanks to a medical application installed on his iPhone, he told a television station Thursday.
Dan Woolley was making a documentary about poverty in Port-au-Prince when last week's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck, trapping him in the ruins of his hotel with a fractured leg and a profusely bleeding gash to his head.
'I had my iPhone with me and I had a medical app on there, so I was able to look up treatment of excessive bleeding and compound fracture,' Woolley told MSNBC in Miami.
Using the Jive Media Pocket First Aid and CPR, he found recommendations for how to self-treat his injuries.
'So I used my shirt to tie my leg and a sock on the back of my head. And later used it for other things, like to diagnose shock,' he added.
Woolley also used the iPhone's more traditional functions, setting its alarm to go off every 20 minutes to keep him from falling asleep.
Eventually, after some 66 hours trapped under the rubble, Woolley was pulled out alive by French rescuers.
Its a wonderful equipment for everyone.
This post feels weird to be in this forum.
BTW, is this a news report or an iPhone advertisement? lol
And not everyone in Haiti has an iPhone.
iphone or medical aid?
Nice advertisent for the Iphone!