Coach Eric Cooper Sr. never thought he would need to save one of his player’s lives, nor did he think an iPhone app would assist him in doing so.
The LA Times reported that Xavier Jones, a player on Coach Cooper’s basketball team, collapsed during practice after his heart stopped beating from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes hardened, making it more difficult for it to pump blood. Coach Cooper and an assistant coach rushed out to see what the problem was. After checking and not detecting a heartbeat, Cooper pulled out his iPhone and launched Phone Aid, which gave them detailed instructions on how to perform CPR to get his heart started again.
Cooper said, “It was really fresh and clear in my brain,” he said. “We are trained in CPR, but the iPhone app was a stabilizer for us.”
Jones is now recovering in a Los Angeles hospital and has no recollection of what happened but is thankful that his coaches were there to save his life.
Phone Aid, by Entanke, has a great recent customer review in the App Store:
iPhone app helps save a life
“See the article in L A Times, Dec 3, 2010. High school basketball coaches used this app to save the life of a player.”
Simply amazing - this brings new meaning to the word ‘iLife’. Maybe we should all have a similar app on our iDevices in case we need a little reminder on how to treat people’s health issues.
[via Cult of Mac via LA Times]
