The app is a wonderful repository for information related to lifesaving and general first aid care. The only defect I have found so far is that when using the skill quizzes, any question involving a slider for the answer, the answer cannot be correctly selected. This is a minor frustration, but should nonetheless be fixed.

This app does not give step by step first aid instructions. It basically says for every thing don't panic and call 911. I don't need an app to tell me to call 911. I downloaded this app thinking it would cover things like proper field dressing of a wound in order to get someone to the help they need, but instead it only tells you to keep pressure on the wound, call 911 and wait for help to arrive. Completely useless of you are in an area or situation where help cannot be counted in to arrive on a timely manner such as hiking in the backcountry or in the middle of a natural disaster. Not to mention the bites and stings section doesn't even attempt to cover snake bites, only insect stings. And the anaphylaxis section gives you no help in managing the anaphylaxis until help is available, only " if the person is suffering from anaphylaxis call 911". God forbid anyone have an accident outside of cell coverage. Seriously all of these 5 star ratings must be the developers friends and family or people who have not even the slightest clue what first aid actually is, this app will not save anyone's life ever. It is very incomplete and like I said is basically just a 911 button. If you didn't know how to call 911 in the first place you probably shouldn't be outside of your house without an adult.

Everyone, who is not already an expert in first-aid, should have this app or a similar one on their phone. It gives good advice for a variety of situations where you could help someone, even perhaps saving their life.I don't understand the few reviews I've seen that say the app is dumbed down. In some situations there's simply not much a non-expert with no equipment could do, except to call 911. The fact that "Call 911" appears early and often in the list of steps is NOT a meaningful criticism of the app. Even an expert should do that, as an ambulance and hospital are simply better equipped to help than even the most expert person who has no equipment with them.There is only a small chance you will ever need to use this app, but if you do need it, you don't want to be waiting for it to download. Get this app.I do have one criticism of the app. It can list nearby hospitals. This would be a great feature, except its database includes even specialty hospitals with no ER. Seems like a first-aid focused app should only be listing hospitals that have urgent care facilities, perhaps even separately indicating "Emergency" vs "Urgent Care" locations. The closest hospital to me, for instance, is the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Fortunately, in that case the name is a give-away that urgent care will not be available there. But what about similar specialty hospitals where it's not obvious from the name that urgent care will be unavailable?

So the idea of this app is great! I love the layout and info., although some of the grammar could be better, but the tests do not work properly. For instance, I answered all of the questions correctly for the bleeding test, however it only said that I had one correct answer. The reason I know I was correct on the other questions, aside from being confident in this knowledge already, was that the test showed the answers for the ones you get wrong, and "correct" for what you get right. In the written answer area, it stated all of the correct answers, which were the ones I gave, but it didn't give me the credit for them. When I tried several more times it would only give me credit for one more answer, even though they all should have been correct from the start. I tried the allergy test, another area that I am competent in, and it did the same thing, but this time for 2 of the 5. It's a shame! The tests are a fun idea, but don't work. I'd give this app 5 stars if everything was in working order.

The Red Cross takes the same line that many corporations and all governments do. Namely, you're too stupid to understand all but the simplest information. You can't be trusted to handle anything requiring thought or imagination! So, just shut up and do what you're told and nobody will get hurt. Unfortunately, in many cases, people WILL get hurt without enough information then and there at the scene while waiting for the ambulance to arrive! So, instead of offering enough facts for you to try to help the injured person, they usually just give the skimpiest of information and tell you to have someone else (NOT YOU, remember, you're too stupid to be able to make a call while you sit there "reassuring" the person) call 911!!! I don't understand how people can not only listen to this patronization, but give it 4 or 5 stars!Giving more details of this indirect attack on our abilities would take too long. It took a lot of control on my part to write what I did. What a sad commentary on our society!

I decided to download this app because I recently became a swim instructor and CPR/AED/FA certified at my local gym. It's very nice for someone like me who could possibly have to deal with a situation like the ones mentioned in the future, and then being able to pull up the procedure on my iPhone is awesome because I forget things easily. I've taken the all the tests on the app (and have gotten 100%), and for the broken bone test I selected the two correct answers for what to do to when someone comes up to you with a broken arm, which is to hold it and support it with a cushion. The app still marks it wrong even though I've put in those answers about 10 times. Other than that this app should be on every single persons phone in the entire world because emergencies happen everyday and you can never be prepared for them without this app or proper training.