If you’re an ED doc, you probably love the iphone.But now that there are over 10,000 different apps in the App Store listed under “Medical” and “Healthcare & Fitness” you may be a bit bamboozled as to which apps to try.
Not to worry… Houston Neal from SoftwareAdvice.com has an updated list of the best medical apps for doctors and medical students. Here is how the list is created:
“We followed the same approach as last year: remove non-English apps, omit consumer apps and junk (e.g. “iWeeducation” and “Beauty Tips”), then sort by popularity. We narrowed down a list of 70 apps and sorted them them into 27 categories based on medical specialty and application type. We also identified those that are designed uniquely for the iPad.”
It’s worth having a look through the list to see what takes your fancy. Although, there are are no emergency medicine or critical care sub-categories, many of the categories are relevant to our specialties.
Let us know of any ‘must have’ apps you can recommend for use in the ED or the ICU. We’ve mentioned a quite a few ED/ ICU relevant apps before:
About Chris Nickson
Paeds ED is a fantastic app. Type in the child’s age or weight and it will tell you everything from normal parameters (HR, RR, ETT size) to correctly dosed drugs (plus relevant source e.g. APLS, BNF). Can’t recommend it enough.
Cheers for the tip.
Chris
PEPID for emergency physicians. Not free, but very good. Must know how to translate from US to English.