Quick thinking and an iPhone app saves a student's life

Cell phone application now has a big role in our lives, like what happened to Xavier Jones. Fortunately his coach has this cell phone application that taught him how to do CPR. I would like also to share to you guys this mobile safety application that can help us ask for help and ask for immediate response from the authorities if we encounter dangerous situations. It's SafeTREC mobile application that has a panic button by just pressing the button, it will simultaneously alert and mobilize a select group of friends and family members that a certain person is in danger, and if needed gets the emergency to the nearest emergency services dispatcher. This application also gives the exact location where the incident takes place using GPS. Safety solution for us,check this out http://safeTREC.com/

Nowhere in this article did it say that the coach did not have CPR training. In fact, it said he was "previously trained".

You can do all the first aid you want but until you actually put it into practice, you probably wont remember much from your training (like anything else).

This applies to CPR training. You need to be re-certified every year to remain current (in Canada), however, practicing once a year does not make you proficient at CPR.

This is why CPR standards are changing to compressions only (with a priority of CAB vs. ABC). It will simplify things and it has been shown to have a more positive outcome in people suffering a heart attack.

Apps like this are great as it will reinforce the CPR training that a layperson has already learned. Kudos to the coach!

-Colin (Nursing student & Volunteer Medic)

P.S: New guidelines can be found here
http://firstaid.about.com/od/cpr/qt/09_2010_CPR_Guidelines.htm

You're telling me that two HS coaches didn't know how to do CPR or were otherwise trained in first aid? Good to know.

Surely a sports coach should have some basic emergency first aid training?

I'd imagine it's the law here in the UK (with Health and Safety crap), but surely it's common sense anyway?

It isn't a particular burden to learn CPR and the recovery position, which i would define as the minimum i'd want my coach to know before i trained with them.

And before you reply with people being usually healthy enough to be on a sports team, with this being an exception, it only takes a slight knock on the head to knock someone unconscious (where the victim can breathe and the recovery position should be used).

Common sense, surely?

Kudos for the coach to think to download a CPR app. But how can schools allow kids to participate in high-intensity sports without somebody formally trained in CPR and first aid?

This is a good story, and kudos to the coach for downloading the app. But it's hard to believe that schools could allow kids to participate in athletics without somebody formally trained in CPR and first aid readily available.

I doubt the military will waive this kind of medical condition. Too bad, really, because he seems like the kind of kid who'd go far in the service.

Acually as a professional, the couch should have been trained/known CPR to begin with. Fail on any coach at an level aince Pen Bias died years ago

It was indeed fortunate that the coach had the app and was able to respond effectively in an emergency!

I hope the young man involved goes on to do great things, during a long life!