Perfusion Life vs ECMO Bedside Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perfusion Life
This app helps Perfusionists find and manage career opportunities, offering visibility into available positions and on-boarding status. It aims to reduce uncertainty in travel-related work by providing a structured system for job searching and tracking.
- Create professional profile
- Bookmark job opportunities
- Monitor on-boarding status
- Integrated calendar
- Access relief and full-time placements
- Reduce travel ambiguity
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This app was created to increase Perfusionist’s visibility of Perfusion Life opportunities, and help you take control of your career. With the ability to create your own profile by bookmarking opportunities you’re interested in, monitoring your on-boarding status, and using the app’s calendar. You create an easy system to limit the ambiguity travel can offer. Perfusion Life (PL) offers ONLY relief and full-time placement (head-hunting) services to hospitals and contracting groups. PL has been in business since September 2017 and has provided coverage in over 36 states utilizing ~30 perfusionist per day.
ECMO Bedside Guide
This app provides healthcare professionals with essential, offline access to vital information for managing patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). It includes calculators, checklists, medication dosing, equipment details, and emergency guidance.
- Rapid calculations for BSA, flows, and oxygenation
- Comprehensive checklists for ECMO management
- Medication dosing information
- Equipment specifications and usage
- Candidacy assessments for adult and pediatric patients
- Emergency guidance with 'Panic!' button
- Offline access to all features
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Introducing the ECMO Bedside Guide from ELSO, the essential app for healthcare professionals managing patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Developed by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), this comprehensive resource puts vital information at your fingertips—with or without an internet connection—streamlining ECMO care delivery. Key Features: - Rapid Calculations: Quickly determine BSA, flows, oxygenation parameters, and more with user-friendly calculators. - Comprehensive Checklists: Access step-by-step guides for ECMO management, troubleshooting, equipment, and other critical procedures. - Medication Guidance: Find detailed dosing information for commonly used medications in the ECMO setting. - Equipment Information: Review specifications and usage details for cannulas, pumps, and other essential equipment. - Candidacy Assessments: Evaluate adult and pediatric patients for ECMO using evidence-based criteria. - Emergency Support: The “Panic!” button provides immediate guidance for critical situations like air in the circuit or accidental decannulation, among others. - Offline Access: Utilize the app’s full functionality even without an internet connection! - Enhanced Privacy: No identifying patient information is collected or stored. The ECMO Bedside Guide is based on the latest evidence and recommendations from leading experts and the ELSO Red Book, 6th Edition. Download the app today and experience a new level of confidence in your ECMO practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Perfusion Life at every 6 weeks against ECMO Bedside Guide's every 4 months. Perfusion Life also leads on ratings volume (63 vs 7). ECMO Bedside Guide's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Perfusion Life against 5.0 for ECMO Bedside Guide. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perfusion Life has 63 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Perfusion Life ships an update every 6 weeks, ECMO Bedside Guide every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfusion Life | ECMO Bedside Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Perfusion Life | Extracorporeal Life Support Organization |
Customer experience
Perfusion Life
ECMO Bedside Guide
In-app purchases
Perfusion Life
No in-app purchases
ECMO Bedside Guide
No in-app purchases
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