ICU Advantage Rapid Reference

ICU Advantage

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About this app

ICU Advantage Rapid Reference is the critical care reference built for the ICU. Made for ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and every critical care clinician caring for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. Built to help you understand the complexity of critical care subjects, not just look things up and forget them.

From the team behind the ICU Advantage YouTube channel, trusted by more than 980,000 nurses and critical care professionals worldwide.

FOR THE WHOLE CRITICAL CARE TEAM

ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners/NPs and physician assistants/PAs) and residents/physicians/doctors/consultants. Whether you are a new ICU nurse or have been running codes for twenty years, Rapid Reference meets you where you are, gives you a good understanding of deep clinical knowledge as well as the tools you actually need, while helping you to keep learning and growing.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Organ-system-based critical care reference across cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, renal, GI, endocrine, and more
• Ventilator modes, settings, and troubleshooting for mechanical ventilation
• Hemodynamics, shock, sepsis, MCS support, trauma, burns, and even OB critical care
• Labs, ABGs, and acid-base walkthroughs
• Equipment, procedures, and point-of-care tests
• Drug references with indications, common dosing, titratable drips, medication deep dives, and clinical pearls
• Medical calculators that get you values fast, with full explanations of what they measure
• Easy-to-use scoring systems, from GCS to SOFA: select criteria, get scores fast
• Interactive emergency and resuscitation protocols, from ACLS algorithms to code blue response, to zoom through visually or follow step by step
• Quick Lookup for lab values, abbreviations, and terminology
• Search built for the way critical care nurses and 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 References 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 your 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]

Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Google Play account settings.

Ratings and reviews

Just downloaded the app and I am already amazed at just how much knowledge is packed into it. The organization, layout, ease of use, and incredibly helpful information have already made me excited to do a deep dive and reference this app before or at work. There is just so much to learn from and review here. The only thing I could possibly say would be asking for more pictures for reference. But anyways, thank you to the people that made this!!

You really outdid yourself on this one! In my 7 years as a nurse I have yet to see a resource as helpful, comprehensive, and straight forward. This app has already influenced the quality of care I am able to provide to my patients. It not only is a resource in the moment, but something I can open up and learn from on a daily basis for active learning. So much information and yet, not overwhelming. An amazing app I wish I had had since day one of nursing school, but am so thankful to have now!

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!

What’s new

Picture carousels now fill the screen, so a tablet or a phone turned sideways shows two or three figures at once, with an arrow to move along. Every figure carries its own heading. Turning the phone keeps your place instead of jumping. Labelled lists use the full width, so terms stop wrapping over three lines. Empty boxes where an illustration is missing are gone. Plus new intracranial pressure waveform tracings across neuro, trauma and neuromonitoring.