Subjective News

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.

The BCH KIDS app, a companion guideline app to the BCH KIDS website guidelines from Birmingham Children's Hospital Kids Intensive Care and Decision Support transfer service has finally been released for iOS. http://kids.bch.nhs.uk The Android version was released almost 2 weeks ago but iOS approval has happened now too - you can get it for both platforms, for phone or tablet. Drug Cards  is recruiting for beta testers at the moment. Get in touch if you're interested. Testers get a free copy! Resus Algorithms  has reached over 3400 installs on Android and finally over 2000 downloads on iOS. The iOS download number is a milestone. v2 is in the oven. It'll be slicker, quicker and more user friendly. Expect it soon.

Resus Algorithms now has 3000+ users on Android (and over 4000 total downloads). Over half of these users are in the UK, which is the target market. There have been over 1700 downloads on iOS since release but there is no way of assessing the number of continued installs through iTunes Connect. 1200+ downloads were from the UK. This gives Resus Algorithms a potential installed UK user base of about 2800. The NHS Confederation site states: " In 2013 the NHS employed 147,087 doctors, 371,777 qualified nursing staff" That's a potential 0.54% penetration. Not bad! Get it here: iOS version Android version

I ran a mobile phone voting session at the Guy's Hospital South London Study Day/ Advanced Airway Management alongside Dr Imran Ahmad (Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). This produced lots of interesting discussion and some interesting charts. The longer the session went on the more focused the opinions became with some potential answers being dismissed altogether as the audience was became more and more informed - learning in action. The feedback was refreshing. It seems people enjoy interactive sessions like this and this is really no surprise. With the smaller number of people here (and an average response of around 40 people per question) the lecturer was able to encourage people who had chosen less popular answers to discuss their reasons. I'd say it worked well. Here is the feedback, which demonstrates the value of interactive case based discussions.

The new, tweaked version of Resus Algorithms was actually released a few days ago. The tweaks just make some of the buttons look better and format the tables a little bit better for iPhone screens. You can still get them both from the usual places. iOS version Android version Subjective Effect is working on some new apps. Watch this space for things happening in February and March.

Resus Algorithms v1.2.1 is out on the App Store for iOS5+ devices. This is a modified-for-iPhone version of the current v1.2.1 for Android. Get it HERE. And get the Android version here.

Resus Algorithms v1.2.1 is out on the Play Store. This was a swift update after v1.2.0 was published on Jan 7th 2014, to fix a few small things and add a navigation tip. Resus Algorithms now includes the Anaphylaxis Algorithm. iOS version is on it's way - just ironing out some small issues!