Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia iPhone App Review
The Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia for iOS is an app available via the Skyscape platform. The largest anesthesia “bibles” (Miller and Barash) have companion texts designed to summarize the salient details and make them portable versions of their parent text. This lends to a very portable, easily searched reference for any anesthesia provider. This format also happens to lend itself quite nicely to the iOS platform.
Review:
Navigation of this app is intuitive and easy to use. The relevent tables and graphs are not resized for the screen and are instead made scrollable. This may be good or bad depending on your eyesite and what type of information you are looking for.
Overall, if you use The Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia already and are looking for a reference you can have with you everywhere then this is the app for you. As of this writing there is no other app of this size and breadth. Might be better suited for reinforcement of the main text rather than as a stand alone reference but it is worth the somewhat large price tag for this well-regarded textbook of anesthesia. Unfortunately Baby Miller is only available electronically online and in the Kindle format.
