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Minor Update A video link has been added for Scalpel cricothyroidotomy. Find it at the end of the Failed intubation, failed ventilation algorithm. The support site is here:  DAS App support site Get it for your iOS or Android device, for free Download for iOS                           Download for Android

Finally, it's here The new DAS intubation guidelines arrived this month, along with the the new OAA airway guidelines that we first heard about a year ago! You can read about the new DAS intubation guidelines here: DAS Intubation Guidelines 2015 And the new OAA guidelines here:  OAA Guidelines So along with the new guidelines there is a new app that now contains the corresponding algorithms. It's available for Android 4.1+ and iOS 9.1+ The support site is here:  DAS App support site Get it for your iOS or Android device, for free Download for iOS                           Download for Android

The Resus Council UK has resurrected iResus and its really good. A great app with the latest (2015) guidelines. Get it.

Healthcare Password Survey I conducted a small survey last month. It's been quite revealing; the results aren't a surprise, but the scale of some of the biases revealed are. I'd love to redo this properly - countrywide - though I doubt that there would be that much of a difference.  Total responses were 207. Here is the breakdown -  Do you use least one username and password to access systems at your work? Yes 202 96.7% No 5 2.4% The vast majority of healthcare workers obviously need access to computer systems as part of their jobs. Everything is becoming electronic, or is already (or should be!).  Number of Username-Password combinations? 1 10 4.8% 2-4 87 41.6% 5-7 59 28.2% 8-10 23 11% Over 10 20 9.6% This is an interesting result - 48.8% of responders have 5 or more username-password combinations to remember and almost 20% have 8 or more! That's a lot of co

Wearable Tech in 2015  I attended the Wearable Tech Show 2015 on March 10th at the ExCel in London, just for one day. Let me start by saying that the ExCel is an okay venue and I’ve been there before. I don’t understand the logic of shutting over half the places that serve food midweek when there are clearly more than one event going on. Anyway… I was on a fact finding mission and so visited almost every stand. In the end I got a little tired as it was all much of a muchness. There were certainly some interesting products and ideas on display although about half of them looked like they were products looking for a use and another quarter were ideas and tech that will presumably be subsumed by some larger tech corporation like Samsung or Apple. Someone should have warned me to expect the trackers though. Trackers. So many trackers. Trackers Everyone is selling a health tracker of some sort and they all have some interesting or really boring USP. Worryingly, I had to explain the

Pre-flight Check Anaesthetic Reference Cards, a new Subjective Effect app, is out now on iTunes and Google Play . The support site, with instructions, can be found here . I was approached (electronically, natch) by a consultant anaesthetist who thought the physical cards he'd been involved with producing would make a nice app. He was right. It's a simple app for anaesthetic novices and as such has probably been released too early. When the new intake starts in August perhaps they'll find their way to it. Oh, it's my first Ionic app. More to come. Ionic and on an on Speaking of Ionic; I wrote a relatively well received piece over on Medium  which is partly intended to be really useful for Ionic beginners and partly my own notes, for me, posted online so I can get to them any time. Have a read .