“I had an app that had pre-downloaded all this information about treating wounds. So I looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture,” Woolley told CNN.

The application on his iPhone is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association. “So I knew I wasn’t making mistakes,” Woolley said. “That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly.”

Here’s a screenshot of the app, and you can view more screenshots from the Pocket First Aid & CPR page on iTunes Music Store.

The iPhone app, Pocket First Aid & CPR includes:

• Hundreds of pages with illustrations, including topics such as CPR, choking, bites, bruises, burns, seizures, diabetic emergencies, and more.
• High-quality and detailed videos, showing how to respond in critical first aid situations. Videos include choking, CPR, seizures, cuts and wounds, and more.
• All videos, articles and illustrations are stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch, so you can provide first aid even when out of cell phone range.
• Enter your loved one’s medical information on the My Info tab. For each individual, you can save doctors’ contact information, along with hospitals, emergency contacts, allergies, medications, and more. You can also save insurance information for quick access.
• As standards of treatment improve, Pocket First Aid & CPR will be updated to track those changes.

Visit the Pocket First Aid & CPR page to learn more about this app.

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The CDC definitely suggests that soap and water or alcohol based hand sanitizers are ideal for killing the H1N1 virus on hands, however, it recently amended their information page to include non-alcohol based hand sanitizers. They stated:

What if soap and water are not available and alcohol-based products are not allowed in my facility? If soap and water are not available and alcohol-based products are not allowed, other hand sanitizers that do not contain alcohol may be useful.

The main thing to keep in mind when comparing alcohol based hand sanitizers with natural (non-alcohol based) hand sanitizers, is that they do work, but somewhat differently. While alcohol is known to kill viruses upon contact, alcohol free hand sanitizers do not. A recent third party, Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) compliant, test was conducted on HandClens, an alcohol-free hand sanitizer. The test confirmed that it can take up to 15 seconds for an alcohol free hand sanitizer to kill the H1N1 virus.

The verdict? Alcohol free hand sanitizers do kill the H1N1 virus, but not instantly like alcohol based hand sanitizers. The key thing to remember is to make sure you rub it on your hands for at least 15 seconds and you should be fine.

Does Alcohol Free Hand Sanitizer Kill H1N1 (Swine Flu)? is a post from: Personal Health Resource