by Christina Pomoni

Created on: December 20, 2010

If you believe that your iPhone is much more than a telephone, you are right. It has a powerful operating system, (iOS 4) and it features technologically innovative text messaging and calling options. It features advanced entertainment options and is a great music player. But even more than that, for many users and for many different reasons, the iPhone can save lives by featuring a great number of apps that can help you survive the most extreme conditions or simply keep up with your medical condition.

Here are 5 great iPhone apps used both by the public and healthcare professionals in case of emergency or just for regular check.

1) Pocket First Aid & CPR (Cost: $3.99)

First Aid & CPR and includes a full package of first aid instructions that help you assist someone who is in need for CRP or AED, has chocking or breathing problems, or undergoes a cardiac episode. With Pocket First Aid & CPR you can create your detailed medical profiles by filling in your preferred hospital, primary care provider, emergency contacts, pre-existing conditions etc. You can also read and get inspired by the story of under rubble in Haiti’s earthquake. Pocket First Aid & CRP is offered from the American Heart Association.

2) Epocrates (Cost: Free)

Epocrates is a valuable app used by medical professionals that offers accurate content and drug reference resources. By using Epocrates, healthcare professionals make accurate medical decisions and avoid medical errors thus protecting their patients. Moreover, Epocrates helps doctors save time, at least 20 minutes on a daily basis, which is extremely important considering how time-pressuring the profession of a physician is. Epocrates features clinical information on prescription meds and OTC drugs; pill identifier; drug interaction checker (it checks up to 30 drugs simultaneously); calculators of GFR, BMI, STAT cholesterol, and heart failure risk; medical dictionary with more 100,000 medical terms; empiric treatment guidelines for infectious diseases.

3) iBP Blood Pressure (Cost: $0.99)

iBP is valuable iPhone app that helps you keep track and analyze your blood pressure. Featuring a user-friendly platform, this app allows you to enter your blood pressure values, weight and pulse to check your blood pressure levels. iBP Blood Pressure allows you to edit or delete the values; keep historical record of all the data you have entered; have interactive color graphs on an hourly, weekly, monthly or yearly basis; take

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