Library guides: Drug information: Apps, podcasts & online lectures

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Apps

Recommended apps are listed below, sorted by area. Additional information about ANZCA-subscribed/supported apps can be found on the Apps library guide.

Pedi-Anesth
This phone app is a welcome addition to the textbook A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children, Elsevier, Inc (by Charles J. Coté, Jerrold Lerman and Brian Anderson). This app presents a trove of valuable clinical information for the practitioner.
Pedi-Anesth App (iOS/Apple)

MDCalc
MDCalc clinical decision support is created exclusively by board-certified physicians for use by physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and medical students. The simple yet sleek app provides access to 550+ easy-to-use clinical decision tools including risk scores, algorithms, equations, formulas, classifications, dosing calculators, and more.
MDCalc (iOS/Apple)
MDCalc (Android/Google Play)

FPM Opioid Calculator
The Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA has developed a Opioid Calculator app designed to calculate dose equivalence of opioid analgesic medications.
See the dedicated FPM Opioid Calculator website for more information

Calculate by QxMD
Calculate by QxMD is a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool, freely available to the medical community. It contains over 200 unique calculators and decision support tools.
Calculate by QxMD (iOS/Apple)
Calculate by QxMD (Android/Google)

Managing Dabigatran
The following app has been designed for doctors to help them manage patients on the anticoagulant dabigatran.
Managing Dabigatran (iOS/Apple)

CDC Opioid Guidelines
The CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline Mobile Application (App) serves as a quick reference guide for healthcare professionals to help apply the recommendations of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in clinical practice.
CDC Opioid Guidelines (iOS/Apple)
CDC Opioid Guidelines (Android/Google Play)

ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is a medical search engine and database tool offering access to the Elsevier medical library. The service includes online books, journals, videos, drug information and procedures.
ClinicalKey (iOS/Apple)
ClinicalKey (Android/Google Play)

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Breastfeeding and Medications (14 Jul 2022)
This program is to improve management of medication in breastfeeding mothers, including the pharmacokinetics of drugs to treatment recommendations made for breastfeeding mothers.
The Emerging Role of the Anesthesiologist in the Opioid Crisis (7 Apr 2023)
This program aims to improve the management of the opioid crisis, and includes identifying factors that contribute to the misuse, optimising opioid dosing, and counselling patients.
Evidence-based Opioid-sparing Techniques (28 Jun 2021)
This program aims to improve implementation of evidence-based opioid-sparing techniques, and includes the advantages of multimodal pain therapy.
The Impact of Anesthesiologists’ Preoperative Care on Surgical Site Infections and an Update on Appropriate Preoperative Antibiotics (14 Jun 2021)
This program aims to improve prophylaxis for surgical site infections, including patients with reported penicillin allergy.
Management of the Anticoagulated Patient (28 Mar 2021)
This program aims to improve the perioperative treatment of patients who take drugs for anticoagulation.
The Opioid Ecosystem (14 Sep 2022)
This program aims to improve the use of opioid treatment, including strategies of pain management with the appropriate use of opioids.
Opioid Stewardship in Urology (7 May 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve opioid stewardship in urology by citing statistics of opioid addiction after urologic procedures and using alpha-blockers and antispasmodic agents in treatment of pain after urologic procedures.
Optimal Dose Determination and Personalized Medicine (21 Apr 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve determination of optimal dosing in oncology drugs.
Preparing for Unexpected Emergency Cardiac Events in Ambulatory Surgery (7 Feb 2023)
This program is to improve emergency management at ambulatory surgical centres, and includes recognising the symptoms of oculocardiac reflex and medications to treat local aanesthetic systemic toxicity.
Risks and Benefits of Benzodiazepines (7 Jan 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve the safety of benzodiazepine (BZD) use and discontinuation.
Sympathomimetic Agents (28 Oct 2021)
This program aims to improve use of drugs that mimic the sympathetic nervous system in clinical practice.
Update on Cannabis Use, CBD, and Medical Marijuana (21 Mar 2023)
This program analyzes the risks and benefits associated with medical cannabis so that clinicians can prescribe appropriate forms and doses.

Fully updated 2023 collection now available.

AudioDigest Anesthesiology Collection
AudioDigest provides instant online and mobile access to 250+ accredited anaesthesiology, pain medicine and critical care audio lectures presented by experts from leading institutions, bringing clinicians a convenient continuing medical education (CME/CE) experience. Each lecture includes: objectives, pre-test Q&A, summary & readings, post-test Q&A, evaluation. Free registration required.
See our dedicated AudioDigest guide for more information including full registration and access details

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Podcasts

Recommended podcasts are listed below. Additional information about podcasts can be found on the Podcasts library guide.