EMS Pro vs PA EMS Protocols
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EMS Pro
This medical app provides emergency medical service providers with clinical decision support, calculators, and communication tools. It offers quick access to pre-hospital protocols, drug information, and hospital routing, replacing traditional printed reference materials.
- Pre-hospital protocols (ALS, BLS, CCT, AEMT)
- Clinical calculators
- Burn triage tools
- Drug reference information
- GPS routing to hospitals
- Pennsylvania hospital directory
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Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is proud to offer the EMS PRO app. The app was developed by LVHN's Division of EMS to provide clinical decision support, calculators, and communication tools for EMS providers in the field. EMS PRO is a useful tool while providing patient assessment, treatment, and transport and replaces the traditional printed reference materials that EMTs and Paramedics carry. EMS PRO enables providers to have quick and easy access to: -Pre-hospital ALS, BLS, CCT and AEMT protocols and calculators -Burn triage tools -Drug reference information -GPS integration with your phone for easy routing to Lehigh Valley Health Network hospitals -Listing of Pennsylvania hospitals and addresses
PA EMS Protocols
This app provides emergency medical responders in Pennsylvania with the latest protocols and hospital data. It offers fast updates, search functionality, and access to state and regional information, including EMS bulletins and scope of practice.
- Latest protocols and hospital data
- Fast content updates
- Search functionality
- Dark mode for night shifts
- Access to PA Medic
- State and regional information
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If you are an Emergency Medical Responder, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic, Critical Care Paramedic, Nurse, student, or other medical professional in Pennsylvania looking for an app with the latest protocols and hospital data, iHarig's protocol app is the app for you! This application hosts the fastest updates, works on all platforms, features dark mode for night shifters, and features searching, quick access to PA Medic right within the app, and important state/regional information beyond just displaying protocols. NEW in this release: offline mode with starred protocols, universal search across all levels, useful tools (timers, calculators, and other conversions), and an automatically tracked recently viewed list. With fast (and sharable) updates to content, resources like EMS information bulletins, regional protocols and pilot forms, scope of practice, med lists, hospital data, and other third-party resources curated by iHarig are right at your fingertips! Note, to use offline mode you must initially download protocols with a live connection. The app will periodically check for updates to resources in the background when a live connection is available. PA Medic Hospital information requires a live internet connection. It is the user's responsibility to ensure they are using the latest version of a protocol at allowed scope of practice with current authorization.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: EMS Pro at Free against PA EMS Protocols's $4.99. EMS Pro also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%). PA EMS Protocols's advantage is chart position (#96 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
EMS Pro is free to download; PA EMS Protocols costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for EMS Pro against 4.7 for PA EMS Protocols. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of EMS Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of PA EMS Protocols's.
EMS Pro ships an update every 3 months, PA EMS Protocols every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EMS Pro | PA EMS Protocols |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #96 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lehigh Valley Health Network | iHarig LLC |
Customer experience
EMS Pro
PA EMS Protocols
In-app purchases
EMS Pro
No in-app purchases
PA EMS Protocols
No in-app purchases
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