Our multidisciplinary committee of physician, pharmacist and nurse experts has assembled this collection of apps to help support you in your practice. If you have additional apps that would enhance this list, please email them to [email protected].

ASRA Coags ($3.99) By American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

iOS App

The ASRA Anticoagulation Guideline is a quick and easy reference providing access to drug-specific summary information. The content is evidence-based and is user specific as the procedures are all regional anesthesia related including neuraxial block, deep plexus block, and superficial peripheral block. The opening screen is a list of the 28 medications covered and provides guidance on use of antithrombotics in the setting of spinal or epidural anesthesia.

Managing Dabigatran (free) By HealthObs Ltd

iOS App

The dabigatran App is designed for doctors to help them manage patients on the anticoagulant dabigatran. It will be useful to general practitioners, cardiologists, haematologists, neurologists, anaesthetists, emergency specialists and surgeons. In fact most clinicians will at some time have patients on anticoagulants and would find this App helpful.

Managing Rivaroxaban (free) By HealthObs Ltd

iOS App

The Rivaroxaban App is designed for doctors to help them manage patients on the anticoagulant rivaroxaban. It will be useful to general practitioners, cardiologists, haematologists, neurologists, anaesthetists, emergency specialists and surgeons. In fact most clinicians will at some time have patients on anticoagulants and would find this App helpful.

AnticoagEvaluator (free) By American College of Cardiology

iOS App

The American College of Cardiology’s AnticoagEvaluator is an easy and fast way to assess stroke and bleeding risk and the benefits and risks of antithrombotic therapy in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.

WarfarinGuide (free) By Joshua Steinberg, MD

iOS App

Warfarin Guide offers three resources essential for systematic and careful evidence-based anticoagulation with Warfarin. First it reviews the latest recommendations on indications, INR targets, and treatment duration from the American College of Chest Physicians 8th Edition guidelines on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy from 2008, updated for the 2012 guideline. Second it offers a protocol for Warfarin dose adjustment depending upon INR result. And third is a discussion of protocols for the initiation of Warfarin. These resources come from point of care guides on these topics in the family medicine literature as well as the 2012 ACCP guideline. The app also alludes to guidance for management of peri-operative Warfarin by directing the user to our PreOpEval iPhone app.

Heparin Dosing ($.99) By GDA Software

iOS App

• Great tool for nurses, doctors and medical students
• Allows you to calculate the starting dose of a heparin drip
• Can use current rate and aPTT and suggest adjustments to the drip rate
• Can make calculations using lean body weight
• Allows you to define the starting bolus dose and rate
• Allows you to set maximum rate and bolus for the starting dose
• Can use SI or British Units
• Can round rate to 25/50/100
• Saves all options and reloads them at startup