Friday, January 27, 2006

Anesthesia Central -- Mobility for the Gases

Filed under: Informatics

If you have seen the previous posts, you are familiar with Unbound Medicine's Central concept. Anesthesia Central is similar to its siblings Medicine Central and Nursing Central. It combines premier reference content relevant to Anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and Critical Care specialists with powerful literature management tools. Like the other Centrals, Anesthesia Central can be used as a PDA download or on the Web with a PC or a wireless device like Blackberry or Treo.
Anesthesia Central is anchored by The Manual of Anesthesia Practice (authored by Ronald Miller, MD and his team at the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF) and Pocket ICU Management. The product is rounded out by two general references of relevance to these specialties: a drug guide Davis's Drug Guide) and a manual of diagnostic testing (Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests).

As with the sibling products, tables of content for over 250 journals and literature alerts can be directed to your PDA when you synchronize.

The impressive literature management toolset can be used on the Web to search MEDLINE, browse tables of contents, or review saved articles and search results in the "Archive".

Anesthesia Central provides MEDLINE searching from your Treo, BlackBerry or other internet enabled mobile device via a simple and intuitive interface.

Anesthesia Central is the most powerful mobile Anesthesia product on the market. It is great for a specialty known for "down time" before a period of intense activity.

You can download a trial PDA version from http://www.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia_central.htm to get a taste of the different resources before deciding to buy.

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