2024-03-13 10:45:02
In the event of a medical emergency, the telephone is first used to contact the emergency services at 15 or the firefighters at 18, if it concerns a fire or a road accident. But the smartphone is full of applications that can help you and others.
1. First Aid: the app that saves
Hemorrhage, burn, allergic reaction… An emergency, a tab! Launched by the Red Cross, the First Aid application guides you step by step in first aid. Quizzes even allow you to check your knowledge. “Useful for refreshing your memory, but nothing replaces training! », recalls Doctor Pascal Cassan, head of the world reference center for first aid.
2. SauvLife: from the heart to the work
Saving a cardiac arrest victim by arriving before help is possible thanks to your phone. Created by an emergency doctor, the SauvLife application allows the Samu to dispatch from a network of citizen rescuers the person closest to the place of intervention. Its mission: to provide cardiac massage, otherwise the survival rate decreases by 10% per minute. Since 2018, 639 hearts have been distributed in this way.
3. Staying Alive, the defibrillator map
In the event of a cardiac arrest, every minute counts. The Staying Alive application allows you to immediately geolocate the nearest defibrillator and explains how to proceed. Since 2018, their installation has been mandatory in public spaces. To recognize them, it’s simple: they bear three letters (DAE) and a green cross.
4. Umay secures the journey for women
Locate open and secure places along your route where you can find refuge if necessary: this is what the Umay application offers users, created by a woman who, like 81% of the female population, is a victim of sexual harassment in public spaces. . On the map, three buttons to press in the event of danger: call 112, send an SOS to trusted contacts (GPS coordinates included) and trigger a distress siren.
5. The Sorority: all together
Created by a woman, The Sorority was designed as a powerful female support network. In the event of an emergency – sexual harassment, assault, domestic violence – the victim presses a button, which alerts the users around her by communicating her position. The latter can call emergency services and contact the victim by telephone or in writing. The app is also intended to be a vector of social connections thanks to a virtual discussion space. Or how to fight once morest isolation.
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