I’m sure hearing about how a application within your iPhone saved somebodies life, isn’t something you hear every day, I mean they have been plenty of stories about people being trapped, kidnapped and what have you, then they’ve been able to use their mobile phone to send a SMS message or a phone call to be rescued or whatever, but seriously, iPhone applications saving life’s?

Well yes, it’s true, I mean iPhone’s aren’t called “Smart Phones” for no reason, there are a couple of different examples on how iPhone’s have saved life’s from their release, of course it’s not really down to Apple, more down the application programmers who created the app, many of which are free in the first place.

The news article I was reading, which in fact gave me the idea to write this topic, was about a basketball player, I’ll run you though the story, so there is a basketball game going on, every ones watching, coaches are there, you’ve got the idea, then a 17 year old boy collapsed during the game, obviously the coach runs over.

Thankfully the night before, he was playing around on his iPhone and he was touching up on his CPR skills, thankfully he had installed a amazing little application on his iPhone, which he could run and it would take him though CPR steps, he was able to run the application from his iPhone, while performing CPR to a member of the basketball team he coached. Saving his life, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard stories like this.

If you remember earlier this year, when the Haiti earthquake happened, a man who was trapped under bricks and what have you, sort of in a cave, was able to use his iPhone to find out how to treat his leg injury and a head injury properly, which allowed him to stay alive for over 60 hours while he waited for people to search though the mess and find him.

There are more then 80 different applications in the app store for your iPhone, which can teach you CPR, help you perform CPR, teach you first aid and act like a book for first aid, for example if you were with a friend who were to trip and break their ankle, using your iPhone and a first aid application, you’d be able to easily find out exactly what to do.

The best thing about this all, most of these applications are either free, or will cost you .99 or some tiny amount like that, for a application which may very well help you save somebodies life in the future, I think .99 is worth it!