SimShockPad

App is in early stages of development, has potential but should not be used as a teaching tool for students yet. Not only does it give incorrect information (meropenem is not a standard first line antibiotic) but additionally doesn’t provide any teaching tool when things go wrong. If a student didn’t know the answer to why they failed they would be simply pressing different combinations of buttons until they got it right without understanding why. There’s a lot of different patterns of hemodynamics at play here, and with rapid progression of critical situations within the app without a way to pause the game to think, or a way to receive feedback on your choice, the treatments aren’t going to come intuitively and real time to students yet to provide effective learning. There are also strange/nonstandard choices of treatment options: no option to give norepi to a septic shock patient, no option to give bipap to a CHF exacerbation, the only anti hypertensive options are propranolol or NTG, the app will kill the hemorrhagic shock patient you’re already giving blood to unless you also give saline.