Truly unique, best teaching tool Ive ever used

(Edit: just wanted to add, it would be great if the app took advantage of the higher resolution screen of the iPhone 6+. For now, the UI looks just scaled up from the iPhone 5 resolution. Minor complaint though.)

This is the future of medical teaching. Its one thing to read about clinical presentations and management, its another to actually DO it and learn from oversights and mistakes. This is what real-world experience gets you, we all know that.

This app is as close as it gets to simulating real patient encounters in the ED. Its even got some benefits over real world experience, like receiving immediate feedback if something you ordered was unnecessary. Its like having an attending standing over your shoulder at all times and correcting your mistakes as you go along, polishing out your thinking as you go.

The other advantage is that its a game and its portable. Im an easily distracted person and I get addicted to games easily. Now instead of playing candy crush or a tower defense game, I just pull out resuscitation. Its a game at heart, so it hits all the same dopaminergic pathways that any other game does.

The fact that its mobile means I can play it on the train too. True, you could be reading Tintinalli on the train, but who wants to do that on their phone? Sim cases are the way to go.

Any gamers reading this review know that when you play a game everyday, you develop odd (and mostly useless) skills. I can make turns in Mario Kart with pinpoint precision, without thinking about it. I can make on-the-fly strategic decisions in Command and Conquer subconsciously. I feel like Resuscitation works the same way, where you intuitively begin to know how to manage the croupy kid with strider from an intuitive gestalty point of view.

Really, I cant recommend this app enough. I hope they keep making more cases. This is huge for EM training.

medstudent1138 about Resuscitation!