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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...

I administered the mobile phone voting system at the DAS Meeting 2013 at Ascot ( http://www.das.uk.com ) and I think all who attended agreed that this type of interactivity added a lot of flavour and stimulation to the discussion of the case presentations. These are some samples of the results. This first one is from a comparison between the expert panel, comprised of 7 members, and the audience, 140 of whom responded. Experts & The Audience This was a case regarding a large wound haematoma secondary to C-spine surgery. The haematoma was anterior to the larynx causing severe narrowing of the airway with stridor. Unfortunately I don't have the CT image from the presentation. Of the four options (and one "other") the expert panel was split between the two awake options on offer. The audience, whilst largely agreeing with the experts, gave a wider range of choices with a significant number of people opting for IV induction. Bear in mind - the audience d...

Over 500 people have the app installed, most of them in the UK. iOS version is still on the way and hopefully will be available by Christmas.

Resus Algorithms v1.0.0 was released onto the Google Play store yesterday, 1st Oct 2013, following over a month of release as a beta without any crash registrations or complaints. The latest version has a smaller memory footprint, is full-screen and has some text alterations for smaller screened devices. It will also give a one time only prompt to users for a rating. Feedback, as always, welcome and wanted.

Resus Algorithms (Beta) was released on 26th August 2013 and has already had 2 minor updates.  The latest version (0.1.3) was released on 12th September and at present there are over 100 installs. 

Report Tool Update 4.1 - 5th June 2013 I think I've cracked it. Feedback appreciated. Report Tool Update 4 - 5th June 2013 I've been busy. Testing has revealed an oversight in an aspect of the Report Tool formulas relating to the filtering of data into Direct, Indirect and Teaching. I've all but corrected it but the current Report Tool will only work properly if you only have Local and Distant cases in your logbook. Of course the data in the main sheet is still safe so don't worry about it. I have one more column (just 3 cells!) to correct but they are a little complex and its getting late. I'll fix them asap and let everyone know. Template and Report Tool Update - 22th May 2013 The Logbook v2 template (Anaesthetic Logbook v2 in the Memento online catalog) has been updated to fix a small error. If you already have the template you can fix this yourself: Edit the template by long pressing on it in Memento and pressing Edit. Click on Sup...