Articles on resuscitation, airway, circulation, paediatric emergencies and emergency drugs – reviewed by a physician.
Printed pocket handbooks and emergency medicine apps have different strengths, and what matters in the field is which medium leads to the right information more quickly and safely in a given situation. Using concrete examples, this article shows where paper has the edge, where the app calculates with the exact body weight and which checks neither medium can take over.
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In prehospital emergency medicine, in the resuscitation room and during induction of anaesthesia, an emergency app is useful only if it delivers a dose quickly, traceably and with its source; the range of features matters less. This article sets out verifiable requirements for an emergency app for doctors: weight-based dosing, concentrations, references, guideline status, reliability and the differences between Austria and Germany.
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