Best Apps For Critical Care Medicine

4.9😊(52K ratings)

Free

This app provides over 900 evidence-based medical calculators, risk scores, and clinical tools for healthcare professionals. It offers offline functionality, expert insights, and CME tracking to support patient care at the bedside. Tools are developed and validated by board-certified physicians.

What We Love

⭐ Excellent resource
🔍 Helpful and accurate
🔥 Essential for clinical practice
🤖 Useful for medical students and residents
💻 Easy to use interface
📚 Comprehensive library of calculators

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes and bugs after updates
🔒 Mandatory login/registration issues
📱 Poor user experience on mobile devices
🔋 Battery drain and overheating
🔍 Lack of certain measurement options (e.g. feet/inches)

Pocket ICU by Unbound Medicine, Inc.

Best-Selling Critical Care App

Strong Contender

4.6😞(316 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This app offers concise critical care guidance written by attending physicians. It covers diagnosis, treatment, and management across various subspecialties, including detailed images and decision algorithms. Quickly find information, bookmark entries, and take notes for efficient ICU rounds and consultations.

What We Love

👍 Quick reference material
👍 Well-laid out and written material
👍 Useful for reviewing previous cases
👍 Resourceful and to the point
👍 Good preview/summary

Room to Improve

😞 No access for duration paid
😞 Not user friendly/confusing
😞 Disappointed content (nursing school without experience)
😞 Bait and switch (expensive, not well thought out)
😞 Content is limited
😞 Outdated algorithms
😞 High price for limited content
😞 Unable to get refund

ICU Advantage Rapid Reference by ICU Advantage LLC

Everything critical care

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Critical Care Handbook of MGH

4.9(140 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#97in Medical

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This clinical reference tool helps critical care professionals understand complex patient conditions. It provides organ-system-based information, ventilator settings, drug references, calculators, and interactive protocols. Designed for nurses, therapists, and providers, it focuses on deep understanding rather than just quick lookups.

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#1 ICU Disaster Preparedness

Practical critical care informationUser-friendly outline formatPowerful search tools

This medical reference app provides comprehensive, practical, and current information on medical and surgical critical care. It features a user-friendly outline format with powerful search tools and cross-linking for rapid access to hospital-tested protocols. Includes new chapters on COVID-19 and other critical conditions.

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Quick Reference Critical Care

Immediate on-the-job answers

Updated critical care contentFull-color imagesExtensive abbreviations list

This app provides immediate, on-the-job answers for critical care professionals. It offers updated, evidence-based procedures and stabilization practices in a quick-read outline format, covering a broad range of patient topics by body system.

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Critical Med: ICU & ACLS Prep

Drips, Labs, EKG & Tools

$29.99

This comprehensive critical care reference app provides nurses, paramedics, physicians, and other healthcare professionals with detailed medical guidelines and high-definition multimedia resources. It covers a wide range of topics, including ultrasound, emergency medicine, and advanced life support, serving as a go-to tool for complex medical queries.

High-definition multimedia resourcesDetailed medical guidelinesUltrasound and diagrams

Washington Manual Critical

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paid

Intercalative Flowcharts

Diagnosis and management of critical care conditionsOver 80 medical and surgical conditions coveredEasy-to-read color algorithms

This medical reference app provides quick access to diagnosis and management of critical care conditions. It features easy-to-read color algorithms, drug information, and covers over 80 medical and surgical conditions. Sample content is available for free, with full access unlocked via in-app purchase.

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ACLS Helper

CPR Care Assistant

Adult and pediatric resuscitation monitoringCycle and epinephrine administration trackingProcedure recording and history

This app assists team leaders during cardiac arrest by organizing and monitoring critical times, medications, and procedures. It provides visual and audible alerts for key resuscitation events, helping teams stay focused on patient care.

ICU, Formulas & Drugs

$2.99

Provides essential data, formulas, and drug information for intensive care units. Access critical values for hemodynamics, pulmonary, renal, and nutrition, developed by board-certified physicians.

ICU Drugs and DosagesVentilator CriteriaHemodynamic Formulas

A medical app for emergency and critical care professionals, offering quick support for intubation. It features automatic dose conversion, ventilation parameters, and pre/post-intubation checklists for enhanced safety and efficiency at the bedside.

Automatic dose conversion by patient weightRecommended ventilation parametersPre and post-intubation checklists

Customizable EMS recourse

Your place for everything SCCM

The ICU App by ESBICM

Official app of ESBICM

Access learning contentView ICUtips and clinical pearlsWatch educational videos

Access educational content and manage your membership for a professional medical society. View clinical pearls, videos, and documents, and engage with the member community. This app is for qualified healthcare professionals and members only.

Counsel EM Emergency Medicine

Disease information (500+)Treatment and drug cards (1000+)Blood gas interpretation tool

This medical reference app provides quick access to information on over 500 diseases, over 1000 concise cards on treatments and drugs, and diagnostic algorithms. It includes tools for blood gas interpretation, medical scores, and symptom-based diagnosis, designed for emergency medicine physicians.

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SHR Patient Critical Care App

Family Critical Care App

What to expect in ICUHelpful tipsInformation on medical rounds

This app serves as a guide for families navigating the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It provides information on what to expect, helpful tips, and details about the medical team to support loved ones during their stay.

This medical logbook app allows healthcare professionals to record procedures, case reviews, and professional development. It offers data export options and synchronizes with a web platform for seamless management of clinical activities.

Procedure loggingIn-depth case reviewsProfessional development portfolio

A comprehensive free guide to pediatric critical care, focusing on congenital cardiac disease management. It covers physiology, pharmacology, specific CICU problems, and resuscitation guidelines, with an emergency drug calculator and linked references.

Pediatric critical care guideCongenital cardiac disease managementBasic and advanced physiology

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