TechTool Thursday 025

TechTool review of drawMD – Anesthesia & Critical Care by UrologyMatch on iPad Website: – iTunes - Website drawMD is a beautiful app for the iPad that allows you to explain procedures and illnesses to your patients by using customised diagramatic visual aids.  The app provides templates for anatomical explanations and you can customise these by adding extra stamps or your own drawings.Clinical ContentThe app has 11 basic background pictures to get you started and any details can be added on top of this.  These include: arm, chest, spine, heart and abdomen.To illustrate an example (see the images below) you can start with the chest background (image 1) to explain insertion of a chest tube for a pneumothorax.  The app has several ‘stamps’, which are pre-designed useful drawings that lay on top of the basic picture of a torso.  The right sided pneumothorax (image 2) can be used to explain what the lungs look like and then the chest tube (image 3) can be added to show the purpose of the procedure.  You can also add your own notes and text (image 4).The drawings can be saved for use again or emailed to the patient.There are many EM/CC procedures that have stamps including epidurals; central lines; intubation; and LMAThere are also 11 additional specialty appsdrawMD on iPad 1expand(document.getElementById('ddet1022697821'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1022697821'))drawMD on iPad 2expand(document.getElementById('ddet1734722115'));expand(docume...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tags: eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured application iOs iPad Reviews Source Type: blogs