DBD App vs ESICM LIVES
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DBD App
This app serves as a quick reference for optimizing organ donation and managing patients during procedures. It focuses on stabilizing patients before testing for brain-stem death to maximize the number and quality of organs retrieved.
- Donor optimization guide
- In-theater patient management
- Brain-stem death testing reference
- Maximizing organ retrieval
- Quick reference tool
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To provide a handy, quick reference guide for donor optimisation and in theatre management for DBD. Donor optimisation builds on the stabilisation of the patient prior to brain-stem death testing and is essential to ensure the number and quality of organs retrieved are maximised.
ESICM LIVES
This congress app is an essential tool for attendees, offering program search by day, topic, speaker, and author. It provides access to faculty lists, abstracts, e-posters, and venue maps, allowing users to create a personalized agenda for the event.
- Program search by day, topic, speaker, author
- Faculty and presenters list
- Access to abstracts and e-posters
- Exhibition map and floor plan
- Industry events listing
- Personalized agenda creation
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Welcome to the ESICM LIVES App! This congress App is a must-have resource for anyone attending the ESICM Annual Congress. It allows you to search the program by day, topic, speaker, target audience and author. It provides a faculty and presenters list, author index, access to abstracts and e-posters, as well as an exhibition map, congress floor plan and industry events lists. You can also plan your time at Congress by creating your own the agenda. If you have any questions about the ESICM LIVES App, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to answer any question or of course listen to any suggestions you might have.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ESICM LIVES at every 6 days against DBD App's every 15 months. ESICM LIVES also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 1). DBD App's advantage is 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.
DBD App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ESICM LIVES has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DBD App ships an update every 15 months, ESICM LIVES every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | DBD App | ESICM LIVES |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MOHAN Foundation | CYIM |
Customer experience
DBD App
ESICM LIVES
In-app purchases
DBD App
No in-app purchases
ESICM LIVES
No in-app purchases
