Dr. Kathy Corby, an emergency room doctor, treated an 8 year old patient using her iPhone and 7 separate apps. The 8 year old girl was having seizures and was not breathing. Dr. Corby reached for her iPhone and used the following applications to save the girl:
The child has a rare hereditary disease, and Corby needed to become an instant expert. So she began scanning a number of medical apps loaded onto her iPhone to access “everything you can’t remember on your own in the midst of something like this.”
The power of smartphone and medical apps is truly amazing. I think stories like this will be told again and again. Scanning through large text books or even going to a computer to do research will be replaced by reaching for a smartphone and instantly accessing information. And in an emergency situation the use of a smartphone could be even more important. As Dr. Corby said:
“I did all of this,” she said, “without taking my eyes off the child.”
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