ICU Advantage Rapid Reference

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About this app

ICU Advantage: Rapid Reference is the clinical reference and resource for those caring for critically ill patients. Built to help you understand the complexity of critical care, not just look things up and forgetting.

From the team behind the ICU Advantage YouTube channel, trusted by more than 950,000 nurses and critical care professionals worldwide.

FOR THE WHOLE CRITICAL CARE TEAM
Nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, residents, advanced practice providers, and anyone who takes care of critically ill patients. Whether you're new to the unit or have been running codes for twenty years, Rapid Reference is built to meet you where you are, give you deep clinical understanding, the tools and resources you actually nee, and help you to keep learning and growing.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• Organ-system-based reference across cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, renal, GI, endocrine, and more
• Ventilator modes, settings, and troubleshooting
• Hemodynamics, MCS support, Trauma, Burns, and even OB related critical care
• Labs, ABGs, and acid-base walkthroughs
• Equipment, procedures, and bedside tests
• Drug references with indications, common dosing, medication deep dives, and clinical pearls
• Calculators to get values quickly, with full explanations of what they do
• Easy-to-use scoring systems to select criteria and get scores fast
• Interactive emergency and resuscitation protocols you can zoom through visually or follow step by step
• Quick Lookup for lab values, abbreviations, and terminology
• Search built for the way critical care clinicians think
• All available offline once the content is synced!
• So much more!

BUILT TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND, NOT JUST LOOK UP
Every topic is written to actually teach, not just summarize. Same philosophy as the ICU Advantage YouTube channel: take something genuinely complex, break it down into pieces that make sense, and leave you knowing the "why," not just the "what." When you need a quick review or refresher, the Rapid Reference for each content area surfaces the important, high-value information for quick access, with links to dive deeper into the parts you need.

DESIGNED FOR CLINICIANS
Clean, readable, and beautifully rendered. This doesn't just feel like reading a textbook on your phone. Elegantly designed to look great and stay readable in dark mode or light mode, on phone and tablet. Works fully offline, so it is there when the network is not. Bookmarks and favorites for the topics you come back to. No ads, no social feed, no distractions. Just the information you need, organized for quick access and the way you think.

HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS IS
Rapid Reference is a reference and education tool. It is not medical advice, not a diagnostic device, and not a replacement for your institution's policies, procedures, the laws and regulations of your licensing governing body, or the orders of a qualified prescribing provider. Always defer to your local protocols and clinical judgment.

TRY IT FREE
Every new account gets a 7-day free trial with full access. After that, $15/month or $129/year. Cancel anytime.

Built with care by critical care clinicians and the ICU Advantage team. Questions, feedback, or something we can make better? We read every message: [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

This app is a wonderful resource for ICU nurses. Information is well organized and easy to find. I plan to use this app as a reference for new ICU nurses that I precept. In the future, I hope that example scenarios and practice questions can be added for various topics as this would really transform the app into an amazing educational tool for newer nurses. Excellent work so far!

Been following this channel on YouTube for a while. Bought the app before it came out. I'm genuinely impressed with the amount of useful information that is now at my fingertips as a bedside RN. Very well worth the money for anyone working acute care, not just nurses. Thanks, Eddie!

this app is amazing well built and such a great tool thank you

What’s new

Welcome to Rapid Reference from ICU Advantage, the clinical reference for the ICU. Get fast, offline access to clinical systems, medications, emergency protocols, calculators and scoring tools, lab values, and quick lookups, all in a clean design built for the ICU. Search everything instantly, save bookmarks and favorites, double-tap to switch light or dark, and sign in with email, Apple, or Google. Made by ICU nurses, for ICU nurses.
Additional stability and bug fixes and references surfacing.