Medical Apps and Websites

Below are some site and apps I use on a regular basis in my practice. There is no sponsorship or any sort of paid endorsement here.

 

I use this all the time. It’s very useful for at-a-glance spectra for antibacterials and antifungals. Contains dosing info and links to main guidelines. It bit lighter on the citations compared to Hopkins guide, which some people prefer over this.
Costs money, around $80 a year for subscription, but I was paying for this even before I was an attending.
Fun fact: the Chinese characters mean “hot disease” AKA fever.

 

Journal Club. An absolutely fantastic app that gives you all the pertinent information on landmark trials across all specialties. It does cost money, but it’s worth every penny.

 

The IDSA guidelines app. Self-explanatory.

 

Mark Crislip’s ID Compendium. A thorough app for ID tidbits and details organized by bugs, drugs, and diseases. I don’t know if it’s updated anymore, as he’s stepped away from the online FOAMED space but the stuff he’s included in here is gold, including interesting case reports.

 

Website with a list of podcasts that are an excellent way to keep up with what’s going on in the ID world when you’re on a long stretch in the ICU and thinking more about hemodynamics than microbes.

 

This is a powerhouse of a site for really in-depth micro-organism information include empiric abx for weird organisms. Anytime I’m presented with a strange organism than I don’t come across often, I’ll look it up here. It does require a paid membership, which is why it isn’t higher up….however, there are ways to perform specific searches which you’ll have to figure out for yourself.

 

This app gives you a heat map of gene expression in different immune cells. Not all of you will have use for this app, but if you work in oncologic ID or see a lot of patients who are on immunomodulating meds, you might find it helpful. You might wonder if a new anti CD-XYZ drug will have immunosuppressive effects, and in the absence of any hard data this helps you reason it out. Combine that with a knowledge of what cell line deficiencies lead to which kinds of infections, and you can alter the way you think about opportunistic infections.

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Going with ImmGen is the CD Antigens app. It gives essentially the same information but in a more narrative way. Instead if immune cells as the starting point, it starts with the CD antigen. Between ImmGen and this app, you can make a reasoned prediction about how a new drug may affect immune cells (in the absence of more concrete clinical data).

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CDC Pneumorec app. A very handy app if you give S. pneumoniae vaccines that has you input basic patient data and in turn it tells you which vaccine is appropriate, if any. 


A quick-lookup app for drugs that cause QT prolongation.