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Informed RN Pocket Guide ($9.99)

Version – 1.2

Review – “A great guide for nurses that is truly pocket sized!”

There are good things and bad things about electronic references. The good thing about them is the fact that you can have a virtually limitless amount of information packed into a very small device. The problem with them tends to be that the more information you pack in, the more difficult they become to navigate. Informed Publishing has addressed this by integrating great information with a simple interactive interface!

When you open up the RN Pocket Guide you’ll see a small menu bar at the bottom of the screen with four buttons. The button on the left of this menu will bring up a list of all the topics that are covered within this app. There are all kinds of topics covered from Cardiac and Respiratory down to Mental Health and Gastrointestinal.

When you find the topic that you need information on, touching it will bring up a list of articles to read. What really makes this app great though is that the information itself is interactive. If the article you’re reading mentions a test that you might want to perform it will give you a link to that test within the app, or if it references a phone number it will give you a link to dial that phone number directly.

Besides the articles full of information, this app also offers a variety of different medical calculators. You can access the full list of them by touching the “Calculators” button at the bottom of the screen. Many of them are also available from within various information in the “Topics” section as well.

Another great feature of this app is the “Search/Bookmarks” feature. Anytime you find and are reading an article that you think you might need later, you can add a bookmark to it by touching the “+” button at the bottom of the screen. You can then access your list of bookmarks either from the main menu or by touching the bookmark button from within an article.

You can switch from bookmarks to the search feature by touching the icon in the upper right corner of the screen. As you type information into the search bar you’ll see live updates of information below. Touching any of the articles that pop up will take you straight to them. This makes it extremely easy to quickly find information on a particular topic. No hunting through topics and subtopics, just type one good key word and head there directly!

If you’re a nurse and you have or used to carry a pocket guide of some sort, this is an app that you should definitely check out. For just $9.99 you can have all kinds of great information literally at the tops of your fingers! So what are you waiting for? Head to the App Store and check it out today!

- David H.

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Developer – Informed Publishing

URL: http://www.informedguides.com

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Learn Muscles Provides Strong Educational Tool is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $2.99    Rating: 10/10   By Anna Papachristos

Flash back to elementary school and you will surely remember, at one point or another, that time your class spent weeks – maybe even months – learning the intricacies of our very own human bodies.  From head to foot, you learned how each part functions and how they work together to keep us alive.

But those lessons were long ago for most, the knowledge a distant memory.  Yet, with Learn Muscles anyone can study and learn the inner workings of the muscular system with this quick and easy app by Real Bodywork.  With 120 muscle images and descriptions, 4 explanatory videos and 16 flashcard style quizzes, Learn Muscles truly lives up to its name.

When you begin, the home screen will show a picture of the human body broken down to display the muscular system.  The body has been broken down into four categories: Face, Arm, Torso and Leg.  The bottom right corner also users to access an ‘Overview’ of the entire system, which allows you to rotate the full-length picture provided and tap on whichever region interests you most.

Back on the home screen, users may also use the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner to view an alphabetized list of all the muscles featured within Learn Muscles.  This allows users to quickly access the muscles they truly need to study.  Choosing a specific region, however, will take users to a list that allows them access video, quizzes and information about every muscle involved in that area.

With a total of 15 minutes of video, Learn Muscles provides a general overview of the various regions reminiscent of the educational videos used in school, but cuts them down into easily digestible chunks that cater to the busy person’s attention span.  These four videos specifically focus on the face, shoulder, hip and back.

For an in depth look at all the muscles of a given region, simply scroll down to the list of muscles.  Each, when tapped on, will display a full color image highlighting the specific muscle and where it is.  Tap info in the top right corner and the image will flip to reveal information about the muscles – its name, action, origin, insertion and comments – in a convenient, outline approach that makes learning each much simpler than trying to extract the information from a book.

Once you’ve studied to capacity, test your knowledge with one of the 16 flashcard style multiple-choice question quizzes.  With 480 randomized questions total, focus on muscle name, action, origin and insertion for any region you desire.  No matter what category you choose, the quiz will begin by displaying an image for two seconds.  It will then flip over to reveal four choices, one of which is correct.  If you wish to see the image once more, simply tap “Flash Again.”  Answer correctly and you will receive one point.  Answer wrong and half a point will be deducted from your grand total.

As Learn Muscles’ App Store description suggests, it truly is a great reference, testing and educational tool for it lays out all the information in a simple manner, providing easy-to-use images to aid in the learning process.  And, whether you’re simply a student just learning the particulars of the muscular system, or you’re looking to teach the topic, Learn Muscles makes the task about learning, not just retaining and regurgitating what is taught.

Learn Muscles requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer in order to speed up the publication of this review.

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APPtilities – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

APPtilities ($0.99)

Version – 1.1

Review – “Extend your iPhone’s utility with APPtility!”

Have you noticed that a lot of the good utility apps cost money? Well what if I were to tell you that you could get over 65 different apps for just $0.99? Well that’s exactly what you get when you download APPtilities | 65+ in 1 onto your “iDevice!” It has everything from social network interfaces to camera and systeminformation apps; over 65 of them total!

When you open APPtilities, the main menu is set up a lot like the dashboard on your iDevice! You can easily rearrange and delete apps by touching and holding an app to enter the app management mode and either dragging icons to a new location, or touching the little “x” to delete that app.

The great thing about a lot of the apps included in APPtilities is how simple they are! For example, the voice memo app just has a “+” button to add new memos. Removing them is as simple as swiping and touching the “Delete” button that pops up! The camera app is also pretty basic. It adds a little bit of extra functionality, without making the interface complicated!

All of the utilities that I tried had very simple to learn controls, and the developers added one more feature that I think a lot of people will really appreciate! If you go to the last screen you’ll see a “Web Apps” icon. Touching this icon will bring up a web browser. All you have to do is browse to the web app you want to use later with this browser and touch the “Add Shortcut” button in the bottom right corner of the screen. Once you do that all you have to do is type in a name for the web app and it will appear in the APPtilities dashboard as another app!

Another great feature is the ability to create one-touch buttons for getting in contact with people! To do this all you have to do is open up the “Shortcuts” icon that starts out by default on the last screen, next to the “Web Apps” icon. You can set these buttons to call, email, or sms any contact in your address books and they are a great way to stay in contact with people!

What I came to find is that the more I played with this app, the more features I became fond of! Something that shouldn’t be taken for granted either is the fact that this app can save you a lot of time if you just need something quickly and don’t want to install another app for it. If you’ve ever considered buying any of the cheap little utilities like calculators, RSS readers, metronomes, and dictionary’s that the App Store has to offer, but you decided against it because of price this is really a no-brainer. So if you’re still reading this, what are you waiting for? Download your copy of APPtilities today for the $0.99 from the App Store!

- David H.

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Developer – Ryan Bertrand

URL: http://www.bertrandwd.com

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Hypnokit: Relax, Destress, and Wipe Off the Drool is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $2.99    Score: 10/10    By Michelle Schusterman

As you can see from the score above, I was pretty impressed with this app. Let me give you the scenario.

I was seated at the freelancer’s office – aka, a café down the street – eyeing the guy seated at the “good table” by the outlet over my latte and trying to decide which assignment to tackle next. I’d been having allergy problems for going on three days and felt pretty exhausted from constantly waking up to blow my nose. Pulling out my iPhone, I saw my next app to review was Hypnokit, by Andrew Parkinson.

I’m not a skeptic about hypnosis and relaxation techniques; in fact, I practice yoga (although not as often as I’d like). But I’ve never bothered to download one of the many relaxation apps floating around out there. I opened Hypnokit and immediately liked its simplicity. After listening to the brief instructions, I looked around and spotted an unoccupied big comfy chair, picked up my stuff, and relocated.

I stuck my earbuds in, tapped on the first of three choices – “Stress Buster” – and closed my eyes.

The recording is great – soothing music accompanied by Hypnotherapist Diana Parkinson’s voice, instructing me to relax myself bit by bit. Maybe it was the organ-like sounds, maybe it was Ms. Parkinson’s British accent (hey, I’m a sucker for accents), but in a few minutes I was slouched over in my chair in the middle of a busy café, nearly asleep (and possibly drooling).

I was aware of Mrs. Parkinson’s voice the entire time. And I wouldn’t go so far as to say I was hypnotized – if someone had approached me, I’m sure I would have responded. But I was very, very relaxed. And at the end of the ten minute session, when Mrs. Parkinson told me she was going to count to ten and I would open my eyes and feel refreshed, she did – and I did.

Honestly, I felt as if I’d taken a decent nap. I was awake and very clear-headed. I checked out the other two sessions – “Peaceful Beach” and “Relaxing Meadow” – and they were very similar in style, but closer to twenty minutes long. Each session gives you the option to play, pause, or stop, and if you pause, Hypnokit will save your place even if you go back to the main menu and choose another session.

No lie – I’m going to try falling asleep to “Relaxing Meadow” tonight. If you’re looking for a quick ten to twenty minute energy boost to listen to on the bus on the way home from work, check Hypnokit out. Just watch the drool, out of courtesy to the guy next to you.

Hypnokit is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch.  It requires the iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later.

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New Sleep App From Proactive Life! is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Improve your sleep with Proactive Sleep!

Proactive Sleep application that tracks your sleep in a sleep diary simply by setting an alarm at night.  We recently released a major update and have lowered our prices.

The app provides users with personalized feedback designed to help improve your sleep hygiene.  Similar to diet and exercise, sleep is an important part of a healthy life-style.  We hope that by giving you feedback on your behaviors just by doing everyday tasks like setting an alarm, can better understand and improve there sleep.  The app also includes a bunch of sleep/wake promoting features.  If you already set an alarm at night, why not get something out of it?

It is based on the science of sleep, unlike many other self proclaimed smart phone alarms.  This app was the winner of th $10,000 Schoofs prize for Innovation and creativity, featured on CBS early show, and has been published in scientific journals.

For more information check out www.proactivesleep.com.

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Create a Comprehensive Pain Log With Chronic Pain Tracker is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Since healthcare professionals are telling the general public to become more involved with their own healthcare all the time, why not use technology to make involvement simpler. An addition to a handful of other iPhone apps that allow users to track specific medical information, Chronic Pain Tracker is a fairly comprehensive app that helps track chronic pain by providing users with an easy way to create a log with details of their ailment.

Chronic Pain Tracker provides both a summary of pain as well as a history of entries, which could prove quite useful to a doctor or chiropractor. Users can make detailed entries that include anatomical graphics, a pain rating scale, pain descriptors, and specific user notes. Each saved entry is tracked by date and time and consolidated into a report format showing the daily overview, as well as weekly. At a glance, you can see the number of entries for each day, week, or up to the past 90 days, or view a more detailed history of all entries.(…)
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Low Back Pain Clinical Management Guidelines Helps You Find a Diagnosis is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $5.99    Score: 8/10    By Michelle Schusterman

I’ve been fortunate enough not to have any serious back problems in my life, at least so far. But judging from the personal accounts of a few people close to me, I know that it can be an incredibly painful, complex, and expensive issue to deal with.

Low Back Pain Clinical Management Guidelines is an app intended to help those suffering from lower back pain navigate through all of the possible causes and treatments – no small task, and one that developer Clinically Relevant Technologies has taken seriously.

After reading and accepting a thorough disclaimer, you begin choosing yes or no type questions to navigate through the app’s algorithm. Most steps include extra information or details, such as what you should expect at physical examinations at your particular stage in the process, etc. The app is worded as if speaking to a doctor, supplying advice on how he would approach his patient.

But if you are the patient, I think that makes this app even more valuable – knowing what to expect from your doctor. It also lets you know what kind of strategies and tests to expect when testing for specific problems, including:

• Cancer
• Cauda equina syndrome
• Vertebral fracture
• Infection (i.e. osteomyelitis)
• Spinal stenosis
• Ankylosing spondylitis

As I said, I haven’t experienced back pain myself, and clearly I’m no doctor. However, the information this guideline provides seems solid and highly researched. The format is great and easy to navigate – however, I would like to see a way of saving your current status in the algorithm. Many of the steps you reply to require doctor appointments, follow-ups, and trial therapies, which can take days or weeks to complete. Afterwards you have to start the algorithm over again to include that step.

Low Back Pain contains other useful information, like an acronym legend, other recommendations, and a statistical review. Back pain can range from a simple fix to an incredibly complicated issue, and I’ve seen more than one friend spend months and even years visiting doctors and receiving mixed diagnoses, not to mention wasting a lot of money. It’s a difficult journey to navigate, but this app does a wonderful job acting as a guide.

Low Back Pain Clinical Management Guidelines requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later and is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Pocket CPR is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

The Boy Scouts have a motto: Be Prepared. The Cub Scouts have one also, but it has nothing to do with being prepared, or this review. That said, iPhone users have access to thousands of apps in the app store that provide readily available expert reference and guidance regarding many different topics, allowing us (iPhone users) to always “Be Prepared.”

This is a review of Pocket CPR, an app that helps us “be prepared” to save a life in the event someone needs Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Although there are many similar apps in the app store, Pocket CPR is a training tool and is free.

Pocket CPR for iPhone “coaches” it’s user through the CPR process, using clear visual and audio step-by-step instructions, as well as feedback, to guide students or trained personnel through CPR practice. The app’s description contains the following disclaimer:

NOTE: The Pocket CPR for iPhone is currently for training and practice purposes only. The application is not yet cleared by the U.S. FDA for use in an actual rescue.

The one feature that separates this CPR (training) app from others, is its use of “feedback,” explained below.

When opening Pocket CPR, two things are immediately clear:

1. There’s not much really to this app, and
2. This app is for TRAINING USE ONLY.

The “I” links to a built-in users manual. The user can configure his/her settings to define a pre-determined emergency number, which is available for use throughout the process, or start CPR, “with breathing” and “hands only.”

Both processes provide clear audio and visual instructions, allowing the user to set the iPhone down until beginning chest compressions and every instructional screen (which the user can advance through using finger swipes) contains an option to dial the pre-determined emergency number.

Prior to the user/student/trainee beginning chest compressions, he/she is instructed (via audio and visual) how to properly hold the iPhone when giving chest compressions:

The student/trainee then receives instruction on proper chest compression techniques, e.g. hand placement, etc., then the “coach” kicks in, advising the user to begin CPR:

Pocket CPR then utilizes the iPhone’s accelerometer hardware to pace chest compressions, detect the rate of actual compressions and the proper depth of those compressions (using the “Depth Gauge” and a corresponding red/green bar displayed on the screen) and notify the student to push faster, slower or remain at their current rate. This is all accompanied with/by visual and audio feedback:

After detecting 30 chest compressions, the app prompts it’s user to provide ventilations after the detection of 30 chest compressions:

The process repeats itself until it’s stopped by the user (I quit after 4 “sessions.”).

I did find it somewhat difficult (not to mention uncomfortable and precarious) to hold my iPhone in that manner while giving chest compressions. However, since this is a training app, none of that should factor into your use of the application. I also verified the accuracy of the app’s depth gauge by using a 12-inch ruler. It’s definitely accurate.

In all, if provided with the proper equipment (a CPR “dummy,” etc.) this is a good app for trained personnel and/or learning students to practice with, but I wouldn’t use it in a real-life situation. As impressive as this app is, it’s no substitute for real, proper training. If you’re looking for a detailed, instructional app for giving CPR, this is not it. It’s simply a good (free) training aid that compliments personal knowledge of the CPR process and how to perform it properly.

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Legal Maps Cultivates your Cannabis is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: FREE    Score: 8/10    By Steve Beaudry

Medical marijuana is legal in four states, so if you find yourself California, Nevada, Oregon or Montana and in need of a bud, Legal Maps by WeedMaps will show you the way.

With Legal Maps you can find the doctors and dispensaries that are closest to your current location using the iPhone’s GPS. It does its job well and cleanly, but the clear disadvantage, which can be expected from any app of its kind, is that it’s limited by the bounds of the law. For example, I happen to live in Florida. In order to fill my prescription, I would have to travel clear across the country for this app to be of any practical use.

Still, there is something to be said for the practicality of such an app for those Americans who are within those bounds. I couldn’t tell you how difficult it is to find these places on your own since I’ve never actually tried, but if you need to get your hands on some medical marijuana, this app will seriously cut down on research time. You can give reviews, find other people who share your enthusiasm and even connect to Facebook through their accompanying website and wave your legal product in front of all your friends across the country.

There’s not much more to say about the app since it really is pretty straight forward. If you have a legal marijuana prescription to either acquire or fill, you can use this app completely free to find the doctors and the shops you need.

Legal Maps requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later and is compatible with both iPhone and iPod Touch.

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