I updated OrthoRef (formerly known as OrthoMind) to version 2.0 in the App Store and Google Play. The iOS version (for iPhone and iPad) is currently awaiting review, and you’ll be able to update the existing installation on your device. If you already purchased the first version, the update is completely free. The Android version is…Continue Reading…
OrthoRef is now available for the iPhone and iPad (you only pay once), and for Android. The app offers you 100 clinical scores and classification systems for orthopedic surgeons, residents, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists and other (para)medics. Based on the neurosurgical “Top App” NeuroMind, this app offers you more than 50 completely new scores that focus on the hip, leg, shoulder, elbow, hand and…Continue Reading…
After all positive reactions on NeuroMind, I decided to create a sibling of this app for orthopedics: OrthoRef. It contains a total of 100 scores for your orthopedic practice, including more than 50 scores that are not present in NeuroMind! Now, the app is working fine on iPhone and iPad, and has been submitted to…Continue Reading…
And that is three! “NeuroMind for iPad” version 2.0 is now available in the App Store, completing the triad after the recent iPhone and Android upgrades. This free upgrade also includes the previously mentioned interactive decision support, and many more scores. You can upgrade your existing installation, or download the latest version from the App…Continue Reading…
The current version of NeuroMind (1.7) is from June 2011. Now, 10 months later, the new -major- upgrade for NeuroMind has been uploaded to the App Store! What’s New in this Version? NEW MAIN CATEGORY “Decision support” with 23 items! EXPANDED CATEGORY “Scores” with 95 items now! EXANDED CATEGORY “Other” with TEDx talk and Testimonials…Continue Reading…
So here are the three tabs mentioned before: “Decision support”, “Scores” and “Other” are now bundled in one version, and the layout of the decision support menu has been updated to fit the layout of the rest of the app. Here is how it looks on iPhone: And this is how it looks on iPad:…Continue Reading…
In their Chest 2010 article, Lip et al described a new risk stratification schema for assessing stroke risk in atrial fibrillation. It is called the CHA2DS2-VASc score, which is an improved version of the classic CHADS2-score. The new score consists of these items: Besides a scoring systems and corresponding risk rates, the authors also propose…Continue Reading…
Some of you may already have noticed it in my previous post, but I rearranged the menu in the Decision Support section for NeuroMind 2: Previously I had only one category besides “Brain Trauma Foundation” which was called “Individual articles”. By now, it started to become too cluttered, a mix of different topics. So I…Continue Reading…
The Canadian C-Spine (cervical-spine) Rule (CCR) and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Low-Risk Criteria (NLC) are decision rules to guide the use of cervical-spine radiography in patients with trauma. According to this study in the New Engl J Med the CCR is superior to the NLC with respect to sensitivity and specificity for cervical-spine injury for alert patients with trauma who…Continue Reading…
“The surgical treatment of spinal epidural metastasis is evolving. To be a surgical candidate, a patient should have a life expectancy of at least 3 months. Estimation of survival by experienced specialists has proven to be unreliable.” (Bartels et al, 2007; Bartels et al, 2011). Bartels et al have published data underlying a web-based decision support system on the…Continue Reading…