For example, the management of warfarin depends on the patient’s risk for embolization. The app provides guidance, as shown, on assessing this risk.
Once risk has been assessed, the app provides instructions on how to manage warfarin, as well as whether (and how) bridging anticoagulants should be administered.
The third of four sections of the PreOpEval App helps users determine timing of surgery after cardiac intervention, including MI, CABG, angioplasy, and angioplasty with stenting.
The final of four sections provides information on what diagnostic tests should be considered for pre-operative patients.
For example, the PreOpEval App provides both the ICSI as well as the ACC/AHA recommendations on when an EKG should be performed in the pre-operative setting.
The app also lists the references utilized for its content.
All four references used in the PreOpEval App are consensus guidelines from professional organizations.
Price:
- The PreOpEval App is FREE at the App Store.
Likes:
- Content is based on recent consensus guidelines from the ACC/AHA, ICSI, and ACCP
- Well-organized content divided into 1 algorithm and 3 “resources”
- Free!
Concerns/Updates We’d Like to See:
- The app could have included the class level of each recommendation in the step-wise algorithm
- Once inside an algorithm or resource, it is cumbersome to navigate back out to the main screen
Conclusion:
- The PreOpEval App represents an outstanding free MUST-HAVE resource for housestaff and physicians out of training, based on consensus guidelines and conveyed in a well-organized format, to help guide the vital topics of pre-operative evaluation and peri-operative management of patients.
