iPhone used to do actual chest compressions – ED physician demos Pocket CPR app – Innovative or Weird?

by Iltifat Husain
on Feb 12, 2010

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An ED physician from Croatia uses a free app, Pocket CPR, to deliver actual chest compressions.  He uses the built in iPhone accelerometer plus a custom designed cradle to deliver the compressions. I’m not sure if this functionality would actually be useful? We’d be interested to know what you think. Continue on to see the actual video.

The video really starts at the 18:03 mark.  It seems like a pretty innovative idea, much like the “boot-leg iPhone stethoscope“, but in practice it falls short.  We found this via Engadget, and they are actually doing a competition on their site, asking readers for the funniest caption for the video.

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Comments:

  • MS1
    the beginning was kind of interesting, where the guy was trying to talk about how important mobile tech is, and he was presenting some intersting stats, but i agree with the above comment. weird.
  • Luke
    I would go with WEIRD. This would NOT be practical in the field. People keep finding the weirdest ways to use the iPhone
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