Patients presenting for urological surgery range from the young and fit to the elderly with multiple, often significant, coexisting diseases. This latter group poses a significant challenge in the perioperative period, sometimes irrespective of the type of surgery. Among our patient population lies a hidden subgroup of high-risk individuals, who…
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Advanced Twitter
It has been a few years since my post on “Twitter for urologists” was published in Urology News 1. Given the continued rise of the platform, I thought it was time to revisit and expand on the Twitter’s functionality. In this review, I will attempt to expand your use of Twitter…
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Urology Smartphone Apps 2016
Amongst the plethora of mobile applications, there are some essential applications for practising urologists, urologists in training and allied healthcare professionals. In this month’s digital review, we highlight some essential applications. Mobile office apps Maintaining a virtual office is key to keeping up with the demands of practising Urology…
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Figure 1
Figure 1 is an app that aids in the sharing of medical images to aid learning. In essence, Figure 1 is as an Instagram for healthcare. It was launched in 2013 and now connects a network of up to one million healthcare professionals. The aim of Figure 1 is to…
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EAU Pocket Guidelines App
The European Association of Urology (EAU) has released a significantly improved EAU Guidelines app, consolidating cancer and benign guidelines into a single, user-friendly interface. Navigating the guidelines is now easier with touch-responsive squares and, crucially, the content is divided into sub-sections, making it much more practical for use in clinics…
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Medical Journal Readers
Keeping up to date with a variety of urology and medical journals can be an onerous task. Each year there is an ever-expanding number of medical journals and finding a way to sift through relevant information in medical journals and keep up to date is becoming increasingly difficult. In mainstream…
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Mobile e-Logbook app
Maintaining a record of operations in a surgical logbook has long been part of surgical training and governance. For trainees, it is an essential part of assessments. For consultants, maintaining a logbook is not essential, however, a review of clinical outcomes forms part of the revalidation process in the United…
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Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator app
The widespread use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has led to diagnostic difficulties for patients and urologists. The sensitivity and specificity characteristics of PSA are far from optimal. To try and improve the predictive accuracy of PSA measurements, nomograms and artificial neural networks have been created by many groups…
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Patient portals
In May 2012, the Department of Health published its information strategy ‘Power of information’ which aims to put us all in control of the health and care information we need1. As a part of its information strategy a key role for patient information portals was outlined. Similar plans are already…
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Apps for urologists
With smartphones having already overtaken PC sales and tablets due to overtake PCs by the end of the year, the market for medical apps is ever expanding. In this edition of web review, I have tried to bring together some essential apps for practicing urologists. General apps The NICE BNF…