Tech-mad people may say they can't live without their mobile phones
but it's a claim that a US filmmaker, trapped in Haiti's earthquake
rubble for almost three days, can sincerely make.
Dan Woolley was filming a documentary in Port-au-Prince when the 7.0 earthquake
struck the city, trapping him in the rubble where his hotel once stood
and leaving him with a fractured leg and a severe gash to his head.
Woolley told MSNBC in Miami that
he used his iPhone to help keep himself alive. "I had a medical app on
there, so I was able to look up treatment of excessive bleeding and
compound fracture."
The Jive Media Pocket First Aid and CPR app gave Mr Woolley recommendations for self-treating his injuries.
"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 said.
Woolley also set his iPhone's alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes to keep him from falling asleep.
About 66 hours after the hotel collapsed, Woolley was found by a French rescue team and subsequently transported to a hospital in Florida.
- NZ HERALD ONLINE