ICU Advantage Rapid Reference

1. Lab Values in your units - Go to Settings > Formats > Lab Units and choose SI. - Open Quick Lookup > Lab Values. Hemoglobin must show g/L (135-175). Glucose must show mmol/L (3.9-5.5). - Tap a lab name inside an article. The pop-up must show the same units. - Set Lab Units back to US. The values must change back. 2. Checklists - Open a topic that has a checklist, for example a Nursing Considerations list. - Tap a line. It must show a tick and a line through the text. Tap Clear to reset the list. 3. View source - Open a medication Deep Dive and find a blue Evidence card. - Tap View source. The study must open in the browser. 4. Search - Search for a calculator or a scoring tool by name. - Tap the result. It must open on the section that matches. Tap Show sections to see every match. 5. Fixes - Search, calculators and the Lab Values search must not go blank when the keyboard opens. - A rare crash when you tap a bottom tab from a Rapid Reference list is fixed. Report any problem with the in-app feedback form.

Medications are easier to find, and search results takes you straight to the right part of the page! Medications - Browse A to Z, not just by drug class. There is a new switch on the Medications tab. - New filter box. Start typing and it pulls up matching drugs from every category at once. - Drugs that belong in more than one class now show up in all of them. Benzodiazepines appear under Antiepileptics, magnesium sulfate under Antiarrhythmics. - Every category now has its own new color and new icon which better represents the category. Search - Tap a search result and the page opens on the section that matches your search, with your search words highlighted in blue. - Results with several matches get a "Show sections" button, so you can pick the one you want, and go right to it. - Results now say which category a drug is in, and the line no longer gets cut off. Also - The How It Works guide covers everything new, and its rows open the section they name. - Hemodynamic monitoring and arterial waveform content reviewed for consistency across the app. - Even more arterial line waveforms should be updating in the app very soon via the content library updates.

New ICP waveforms, better image carousels, and a reader that keeps your place. - New ICP waveform pictures across neuro, trauma, and neuromonitoring. Sixteen tracings, all drawn to the same scale, each with a short caption. - Reference image carousels now fill the screen. On an iPad, or a phone turned sideways, you see two or three at once instead of one big one. - Every image in a carousel now has its own heading, so you can tell which is which. - Cleaned up some empty columns in the content. - Turn your phone sideways and you keep your place instead of losing your spot. - Better sizing and spacing of some pairs of information displayed across all devices and orientations. Keep the feedback coming! A lot of this came straight from what you told us.

Sharper search, quicker navigation, and a batch of fixes, plus new ECG figures in the content. Search now handles apostrophes - Searching Parkinson's, Cushing's, Crohn's, or Bell's palsy used to return nothing. iPhones type a curly apostrophe while the reference text uses a straight one, and search treated them as different characters. They now count as the same, along with curly quotes and long dashes. - Typing the apostrophe also narrows the search on purpose: Parkinson's returns entries that actually say "Parkinson's" instead of burying them under names that merely contain the word, like Wolff-Parkinson-White. - The first time you open the app after updating, search rebuilds its index once. It takes under a minute and runs in the background with a progress bar. Faster to get around - Tapping Essentials, Search, or Tools while you are already in that tab now returns you to that tab's main page, no matter how deep you have browsed. Switching between different tabs still keeps your place. Fixes - The Targeted Temperature Management protocol would not open, saying it "may still be downloading" no matter how long you waited. It opens normally now (the content-side fix is already live), and the app is hardened so one bad entry can never hide a protocol again. - Code Team Roles panels now give every role its own icon and color, so Bedside nurse, RT, and Neuro/EEG are distinguishable at a glance. - Fixed three rare crashes: double-tapping a link on a protocol map right as the screen changed, reporting content just as its screen closed, and opening Lab Values or Abbreviations to a specific entry while the screen was still settling (mostly iPad). - If your connection dropped at exactly the wrong moment while you created your account, part of the setup could quietly go missing. The app now double-checks and repairs it every time you open it. New in the content (these arrive through content sync, no update needed) - Real ECG strips for findings that had no figure: the four-stage hyperkalemia progression labeled with potassium ranges, left and right bundle branch block drawn in two leads at once, QT prolongation, hypomagnesemia, electrical alternans, and artifact side by side with real VF. - C waves in ICP waveform interpretation corrected to 4 to 8 per minute. Keep the feedback coming! Several of these fixes came straight from what you reported.

THE BIG ONE!! Reference images are making their way into the clinical content! The first images are HERE and more being added every week! The last update laid the groundwork and now they are live! - 195 figures across 150 topics so far: chest films, CT and echo images, arterial and capnography waveforms, ICP tracings, and labeled anatomy. Tap any figure to open it full screen, hide or show labels on anatomy, and switch on annotated overlays on scans. - Rhythm Identification now shows a real 6-second ECG strip for EVERY rhythm, drawn on graph paper you can actually measure. Rhythms that make sense side by side are swipeable comparisons, like Wenckebach vs Mobitz II or coarse vs fine VF. - Those same strips now appear in 21 more places across the app, from ACS and post-op arrhythmias to the ACLS tachycardia sets, so a rhythm looks identical everywhere it shows up. - The Rumack-Matthew nomogram now displays right inside its calculator. - More images are being added all the time and they arrive through content updates, no app update needed. Faster in a code - In the arrest protocols, steps that say to work the H's & T's now open the H's & T's list with one tap. Defibrillation and High-Quality CPR have the quick-access tab too. Find labs by the names you use - Old or regional names (SGOT, SGPT, GGTP), brand names for drug levels (Keppra, Dilantin, Prograf), and everyday shorthand (H&H, chem 7, coags, alk phos) now work in search. Panel names like "LFTs" pull up the whole panel. Polish and fixes - Score summaries on scoring tools line up cleanly and show clearer category names. - Image captions are centered and easier to read full screen. - Pull-to-refresh and Check for updates now always fetch the newest content. - Fixed a subscribe screen you could get stuck on if your subscription had lapsed. - Content updates too: the trauma primary survey now teaches xABCDE per ATLS 11, medication concentration corrections, VLDL added to Lab Values, and more. These arrive on your next content sync. Keep the feedback coming! So much of this update came straight from what you all reported. Thank you so much to all of you who have caught things and made suggestions to help to improve Rapid Reference!!!