Recently, Brigham and Women’s Hospital released a comprehensive app of all of its COVID-19 clinical guidelines, called COVID Protocols, which are also available online. This app joins a growing list of guidelines and protocols from Johns Hopkins (via the Relief Central and Hopkins Abx Guide apps), the World Health Organization, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and others — but none have covered the topic quite this comprehensively.
COVID Protocols consists primarily of two main sections: Quick Guides and Protocols. The Quick Guides include short but detailed PDFs for hospitalists, intensivists, emergency medicine, intensive care unit bundles, and personal protective equipment.
The protocols are really a detailed guide on all things COVID-19 by specialty. This actually is more like a textbook on COVID that is up-to-date enough to include the recent data on dexamethasone and the recently noted multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
Over 100 physicians and allied health providers at Brigham Health contributed to the app, covering protocols from the basics of epidemiology and work-up to critical care, cardiology, psychiatry, obstetrics, and many more. Each of these protocols has countless subsections with detailed references.
Likes
- Textbook-like in its comprehensiveness, but highly usable
- Covers numerous medical specialties’ unique perspectives on COVID
Dislikes
- Contains some sections clearly for Brigham users only
- Most multimedia content requires internet access
- Not available for Android at this time
This post appeared on iMedicalApps.com.