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.