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Project Overview
This app is a recommended academic text for anyone studying to be a paramedic in Australia and New Zealand.
It provides the critical facts, dosage ranges, indications and side effects of the common drugs that paramedics give patients in Australian Ambulances.
This information can help paramedics to make the right decision quickly and save lives.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
Appiwork is a dynamic, family-owned mobile app development company in Bathurst, regional NSW lead by Isao and Zoe Hida.
Project Brief
Matthew Caffey, a lecturer at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the author of the Paramedic and Emergency Pharmacology Guidelines approached Appiwork to turn his booklet into an app. The content is now more accessible with more search functions.
The booklet was already published in hard copy and is a recommended text for paramedic students at CSU. Mr Caffey wanted to make his content more accessible to students and medical professionals by having it as an app.
The Appiwork team was inspired by the integrity of his content and the opportunity of creating an app that was genuinely helpful to paramedic students and anyone involved in emergency services and pharmacology.
We as app developers are also excited by the opportunity of making learning and medical resources available via mobile apps - people are more likely to use them if they have the information and resources on their phones and tablets.
Project Need
The Emergency Pharmacology Guidelines is the only app to give students, paramedics and medical professionals the facts, dosages and vital information about emergency medications in an Australian context. All other apps and learning resources at the time of development were made for American patients and their medications.
Having access to this life-saving information can help ensure that the next generation of Australian paramedics can make the best decisions about how to treat patients in emergencies. This may save lives.
The app enables users to:
1. Search for medications alphabetically
2. Search for medications by indication (the condition the patient displays)
Single page charts containing the medication’s class, mechanism, simple pharmacokinetics, indications, contraindications, side effects, precautions and facts, common preparations and dosage ranges.
•Appendixes of regular prescribed medications, trade names, checklists, indications, abbreviations and formulas.
User Experience
The app is designed for a specific user group that has a thorough understanding of emergency medical treatment and needs immediate access to factual information.
The user interface is clean, minimalist and focused entirely on the key information regarding each medication.
User testing with paramedic students and academics highlighted the need for a dynamic search function that predicts the medication sought by the user.
The app opens with a disclaimer that users must agree to before using the app. The disclaimer clearly states the app is intended for information purposes only and as a general reference for paramedics, students and health care professionals.
Project Marketing
The target user group for the app is paramedic students at Charles Sturt University and other universities across Australia.
The app was launched on campus at Charles Sturt University in partnership with the Student Paramedic Association with a demonstration and introduction by the author Matthew Caffey.
A landing page was created to explain the benefits of the app and this was promoted widely throughout digital and traditional media.
Media releases and radio interviews were achieved in key regional centres that offer local paramedic university degrees.
Features were also pitched to key healthcare industry publications including Student Paramedic Association, Nurses FYI.
A Facebook camapaign targeting paramedics, students of paramedic courses, nurses and other medical professionals has also lead to positive take up of the app.
Project Privacy
This app does not collect private information from users and doesn't not require them to submit any private information to function.
Users may choose to submit feedback to the author of the content within the app via email.
All such emails are covered by the privacy policy and procedures of the email recipient, Matthew Caffey and Charles Sturt University.
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