DART Sim

As a teacher- I bought the complete system will all add ons- I Confirmed with the developer if I can add my own X Rays and EKGs to the simulations. Once I had purchased the App -This feature was not enabled. The developer refused to acknowledge any email, did not respond to telephone conversations, did not reply to messages to resolve this issue. Completely useless APP for me !!! Buy something else

Excellent app, but very limited features with the initial purchase. Summary - good for rhythms/monitoring, extra features like scenarios cost more. iPhone app (cost extra) can be used to control it if you have an extra person with medical knowledge. With the initial one, you can display all observations, ECG etc as shown in the picture and choose from the 25 rhythms. The X-ray, scenarios, and drugs features are all additional costs which should be made clearer in the app description. I use this app for practicing ALS. Adjusting the rhythm using this app during the scenario really ruins the realism so I also bought the remote app for iPhone which lets someone else control the scenario and change the rhythm and obs. This makes for a great system for ALS/monitoring purposes as long as you have an extra person available to use a remote app, bearing in mind they also need to have medical knowledge to be able to react to any treatment you give appropriately. Not yet bought the scenario feature but may do, the ability to create your own is particularly appealing so you can make and the obs change by itself. This is less useful if the clinicians practicing don't give the treatment expected; so if they are expected to give fluid and you set the scenario to increase their BP after 5 minutes but they then don't give any, it doesn't add up. So not without its flaws.

I'm afraid whilst the concept of this app is great it's not executed well and the costs start to mount up. After purchasing the rhythms and drugs separately I expected a response e.g. the rhythm to change after administration of drugs. You are better off using your imagination than using this app - use the £20 to buy your friend a pizza and get them to test you instead.

This app is a rip off!!!! £18:99 just for the app, then you have to buy ever thing extra from app perches. Useless without the extras, just a bunch of rhythms. Take my warning do not buy, you will regret it. I am trying to get my money back. No chance!

I purchased this with the remote control app in the week prior to my own (and a group of my colleagues) ALS recertification course. Primarily we did this because our Zoll Monitor / defb was out of commission and we needed to simulate vital signs and rhythm in CAS practice. I have to say it worked perfectly when connected via our local WiFi. We were able to run through standard ALS scenarios and throw in manual complexity where we needed. We also were puzzled as to why the BP didn't immediately update but found that simply cycling the NIBP caused it to appear - this is probably something that should be modified so that the instructor can set an immediate BP should they need to. There are probably great help files somewhere but we didn't need them - ECG, CXR and medication functionality seemed to work fine. Ultimately being able to actually program scenarios (like in a full blown SIM centre does on say SimMan) would be great, but for a low cost medium fidelity solution this is outstanding. One suggestion - I agree with the comment that the monitor screen should have the ability to be decluttered so that it more closely resembles a clinical monitor. I recognise that this is the way it is because the programme has to work in stand alone mode, but it would be logical that its default display became more uncluttered when being controlled remotely. As far as I can see you wont be disappointed with this purchase. I have no vested interest in the programme or those producing it. Update - apologies - there is an in app purchase that allows you to create your own scenarios which I have yet to test.

Bought this thinking it would be a useful simulation system for my ipad but without additional purchases seems like a waste of money!!!!!!! Feels like an absolute waste of money!!!!!!!!! I would advise not to buy! Meds app £8.99 X-ray £5.99 ECG £5.99 Remote £9.99 Simmonitor seems like much better value!

Looks good but a bit misleading as you have to purchase all of the add on bits like 12 lead ECG and remote control. Read details carefully!! A bit disappointing because of this.

Bought this this week for teaching purposes. Trainees were impressed with the moving image and sound. Several glitches that need ironing out: - the remote function essentially doesn't work for more than a few minutes. This makes this a waste of investment. - the scenarios come without enough explanatory material and it is unclear how they are different from the rhythm strips. - the blood pressure function would not accept any numbers that I typed in. - rhythm strips could have some more variation to make them look more realistic. This is an ok app that has potential to be great if these glitches are resolved.

This app has great potential but is currently buggy. It is impossible to add BP values and am unable to set up scenarios. A set of instructions would be useful and this app needs updating stat

Great app for simulation of ALS scenarios, great for all the observations available! Only downfall is only being able to control remotely with Bluetooth keyboard, would be amazing if I could control it via my iPhone like some other apps do! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to the 12 lead function!