WikEM - Emergency Medicine

OpenEM Foundation

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About this app

WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki, is a point-of-care reference available on the web or via our dedicated mobile applications. Its emergency medicine knowledge base has thousands of quick problem-specific notes to help you care for patients, which is one of the reasons it has been downloaded by more than 100,000 users and is one of the top 10 most popular emergency medicine websites.

Supported by the nonprofit OpenEM Foundation, WikEM provides a way for medical practitioners to organize online content and cross-reference clinical information at http://www.wikem.org. If you are a medical practitioner, join our contributor community and help edit our content. WikEM is intended for clinicians only and not directly for patients.

WikEM serves a wide range of medical practitioners predominantly among the specialties of emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, critical care, emergency medical services (EMS), and urgent care medicine, as well as primary healthcare fields such as family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Numerous sources have named WikEM as a key reference for emergency practitioners, ranging from EMTs, paramedics, and other first responders to nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and emergency physicians.

Ratings and reviews

The content is top-notch. I love the bullet-point, concise style which is just what I need to review something during my shift. It does have a very annoying issue: For what seems like random topics, it just won't open the article and gives you a white screen. It's not always the same article, but the issue persists after closing and opening the app again. So I just go to the website which gives me a smoother experience.

Love it, comprehensive and most importantly update-able. Several dead end pages and a glitch or 2 but the skeleton is there to become a force in emergency medicine. This is the future beyond rosen and tintinalli, continually updated database of em based on ebm with citations. I'd wish access immediately without having to wait several minutes while the databases update if not used in a bit.

This has always been one of my favorite apps and I used to use it nearly every day. However, the newest update made the app significantly worse. The search function is very challenging now - for example, you can no longer search "UTI", you have to type "acute cystitis." If your search term isn't perfect it will not work. The layout looks worse now as well. I will be looking for an alternative until the app is fixed.