ASRA Coags

Was working pretty well, but now can’t seem to search by procedure for interventional pain stuff.

iOS now puts all app names in the custom autocorrect dictionary on iPhone. When you install this ASRA Coags app, it appears as “Coags 2.1” in your app menu. As a result, any time you type the number “21” in any app, iOS will try to autocorrect it to “2.1” because it thinks you are trying to type the name of this app. Try it… you’ll see I’m correct. Deleting the Coags app is the only way to get iOS to stop changing the number “21” to 2.1 in autocorrect. I’ve contacted the app developer previously. They are stubborn and refuse to remove the version number from the app name in iOS despite this problem. The version number is irrelevant anyway since iOS has automatically updated apps since version 6 or 7 of iOS. I delete the app and reinstall it about once a month to get info from it, then immediately delete it again.

I work in a very busy interventional pain practice. I work with many different nurses of widely varying skill I was hopeful that the new guidelines would be something that the nurses could use to help me streamline practices. They do not. This updated app Is quite clunky to use however it’s a whole lot better than going back to the original multi page guidelines.

Well worth the price. Concise, authoritative, and easy to use.

This app does exactly what it's built to do. Great resource. In my top ten medical apps

Prior to this app, your best option was to pour through the guidelines and make a quick reference table. That, or find one already done by another department. This app is an easy-to-use, always-with-me reference.

The ASRA coag guidelines have always been deeply unmemorable and with this application I don't even have to pretend to keep them in my head. Nice to have on hand.

Easy to use and has all the rules to live by when you put needles in people for a living. Invaluable.

Great reference for non-anesthesia personnel to guide treatment. Great for learners as well.

This app fails on many levels. The point of having something like this is to look up the duration of action of medications. It doesn't do this. For example, I want to know how long after a dose of bivalirudin I can place an epidural. So I click on the "neuraxial" button under bivalirudin, and it tells me "not recommended." That's it, no other info. As an anesthesiologist, I already know this information. What I want to know is how long the medication lasts, what the pertinent risks are, and when it is safe to do a procedure after its administration. This app tells you none of that. It is also missing several newer anticoagulants, some of which have been out for well over a year. Even the interface is annoying since every time you open the app an ad pops up. Don't waste your money on this garbage.