DAS, Resus and EtherWare

DAS App

As usual, I'm a little late with this.

The new Difficult Airway Society app, by Subjective Effect, is out now for Android and iOS phones and tablets. It's free, of course.

Oh, and it's called "DAS App" so you'll have to scroll past about ten German apps first :p

Get it here for:

Android

or

iOS

In other news - Resus Algorithms has now been downloaded on iOS the same number of times as there are current installs on Android, give or take 10 installs. I'll be graphing the stats because the Android version was released some time before the iOS version and it'll be interesting.

EtherWare

Be sure to head on over to my other outfit - EtherWare.

This is a collaborative effort with anther doctor-coder and our inaugural app, Drug Cards, will be out any day now.

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Obfuscate, My Log In, Mate!

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

DAS App v2.0.2 - out now for iOS and Android

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

Universal Anaesthetic Chart

We're probably never going to get a true Universal Anaesthetic Chart because of differences in standards across countries, but we could have a National Chart in the same way as Wales has had the All Wales Drug Chart for several years. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477322/ In particular it has been suggested that " The movement of doctors between hospitals within the NHS is now substantial and hospital-based non-medical prescribers are also beginning to move around the UK. This only makes an even stronger case for moving from independently developed prescription charts to a common approach." http://www.aomrc.org.uk/projects/standards-in-patient-prescription-charts.html There is a group working on standardising the nomenclature of Anaesthetic Charts for electronic records and compatibility with HL7 ( http://www.hl7.org.uk/ ) and so on. In the meantime I've been developing something in conjunction with Dr Richard Griffiths of the AAGBI . Towar

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