Digital Standard of Care for ACLS
The 5 Star AHA ACLS app is outstanding and has become my go-to resource during cardiac arrests and other cardiac emergencies. My colleagues and I rely on it regularly because it is practical, intuitive, and clearly designed with real clinical workflows in mind. It is evident that this app was built by physicians who understand the needs of doctors in high-stakes situations. For any physician involved in acute care, this is an exceptionally valuable tool and one I would strongly recommend.
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Excellent new features
Been using this for sometime and really like all the new features to make it that much easier to run codes
Worth the few bucks
Used this during a code as a paramedic intern with 4 other paramedics present and they appreciated the fact that it made tracking times and time stamping drugs easier than messing with the sub-menus of the LP35. The summary report made it easy to complete my PCR afterwards without having to guess what happened at what time into the code.
Improvement suggestion: be able to store multiple logs with dates.
Improvement suggestion: be able to store multiple logs with dates.
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Pay wall
Why is a life saving app blocked by a subscription cost?
Locked out middle of code
I PAY for the subscription and I was locked out of the app mid-code. Fix this ASAP this is so dangerous!
Essential tool for ER Nurses
Its $2.99/year subscription fee is worth $$$ to support this app. As a new grad nurse, I was the recorder when a code came in to our ER. It had been some time since I was on the code team, and I had also bought a new phone, so my previous apps were no longer available. I stumbled across this app during the prep and immediately felt reassured. The most updated algorithms were in the palm of my hands. My only suggestion for improvement is that the log reflect the actual time for timekeeping.
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MD
Just downloaded this. But I do not see the LVAD algorithm on this. Why was that not included?
Good but could be better
Good interface and appreciate it being the most up to date. Overall worth the money, if only because you aren’t as likely to lose your phone as the ACLS paper cards. That said, the code “log” could be more detailed. Other similar apps include “events” where IO/central line access, insulin, PEA, VT, VF, asystole etc can be documented. Codes are chaotic as is - this log should help debriefing and documentation.
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Subscription for an app that doesn’t load
Having to pay a subscription fee for the app is already rough, but for one that doesn’t load the info into is insane.
Paywall life saving algorithms
Should be illegal to paywall this
Sad
It’s sad that a company as rich as MGB would lock such a simple and life-saving app behind a subscription based paywall. It’s honestly bad PR if anything.
Former MassGen Employee
As someone who worked at MGH and is familiar with the AHA I’m not surprised these blood-sucking leeches are trying to monetize a literal emergency resuscitation and code guidance app. These massive, behemoth entities, the absolute gold standard and leaders in healthcare, have this behavior. How could this be? The greed is incredible. Why not give back to society such a minor inexpensively developed thing? Probably funded with donations too. Turns the stomach to consider as an indicator for the state of society.
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Greedy app developers
Greedy app devs want to be paid for algo that is free on AHA website, marks app as “free” but after you download there’s a monthly fee. Deceptive and very bad form considering the purpose of the content.
It’s a great app, but…
I used this app some time ago when it was free. Great app, very useful. Is very unfortunate that it is no longer free. I can appreciate the need to now charge a nominal fee, however I have several issues with the implementation.
1) A basic version should be free. As it stands the app is completely unusable outside the 3 day trial without a subscription. At least make the ACLS cards free in the app without nagging prompts for subscriptions. This is an invaluable resource in low resource settings, and charging a fee to access the basic information removes a critical resource.
2) A subscription service is just tacky. When I pay for something, I expect to own it - not the case with a software subscription. I realize SAAS is all the rage right now, but it’s really better to stick with a purchase model. I happily bought the ASCCP app and the subsequently updated version for $9.99 each, but I would never consider a yearly subscription to the same app. Just charge a one-time fee (or a nominal purchase fee and then charge for an upgrade) just like any good software for the last 40 years.
3) You went the subscription route and didn’t enable family sharing. This is the real insult here. Not only did you start charging for a free app. Not only did you decide to charge a subscription rather than let me purchase it. You INTENTIONALLY decided to not let members of the same household share the subscription. Absolutely ridiculous, and a great example of the greed present in corporate medicine today (even in orgs that claim to be nonprofit).
1) A basic version should be free. As it stands the app is completely unusable outside the 3 day trial without a subscription. At least make the ACLS cards free in the app without nagging prompts for subscriptions. This is an invaluable resource in low resource settings, and charging a fee to access the basic information removes a critical resource.
2) A subscription service is just tacky. When I pay for something, I expect to own it - not the case with a software subscription. I realize SAAS is all the rage right now, but it’s really better to stick with a purchase model. I happily bought the ASCCP app and the subsequently updated version for $9.99 each, but I would never consider a yearly subscription to the same app. Just charge a one-time fee (or a nominal purchase fee and then charge for an upgrade) just like any good software for the last 40 years.
3) You went the subscription route and didn’t enable family sharing. This is the real insult here. Not only did you start charging for a free app. Not only did you decide to charge a subscription rather than let me purchase it. You INTENTIONALLY decided to not let members of the same household share the subscription. Absolutely ridiculous, and a great example of the greed present in corporate medicine today (even in orgs that claim to be nonprofit).
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🛑 NOT FREE ANYMORE 🛑
Make it a one time fee instead of taking a “SMALL” amount from millions of people!
Fantastic when it was free
It was great…before they started charging. Takes some of our ACLS/BLS course fees to keep the app free.
??
Of all the ways to make a buck in medicine you’re really going to charge money for a simple app that tracks codes? Was advised to download this when I started residency and recently pulled it out on the way to a code, and got prompted to put in my credit card info. Sick.
Trusted and improves care
A small price to pay for excellence in healthcare delivery.
Not worth it.
Garbage to have to pay money for this. This stuff is online.
If you pay for ACLS, AHA should provide this for free
All hospital physicians must be ACLS certified through AHA and the training $$ received from mandatory trainings should go towards funding and maintaining the app. Especially since AHA celebrates $1 billion in revenue in 2021 (largely from donations) and CEO takes home $2.5 million/year. I think an AHA sponsored ACLS app doesn’t seem that big of a stretch…
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Response from developer
Dear Brite222, Thank you for using and supporting our MGH ACLS app over the last couple years. The initial MGH ACLS version was free thanks to funding from a generous philanthropic donation. Unfortunately, this funding has expired, and, in order to cover the expenses for maintaining and upgrading the app for clinicians around the world, we had to make the difficult decision of charging a small, annual subscription fee of $2.99. We sincerely apologize for the abrupt change to a paid subscription model. We do not collect personal contact information, so there was no way to notify our users in advance of this transition. We hoped that a 3-day free trial could help alleviate this issue to some degree. Ultimately, we hope we can continue supporting clinicians around the world in delivering the highest quality ACLS care through our AHA ACLS app. Sincerely, The AHA ACLS Team
