AcuteCare.icu pocket: hands-on acute care support

In acute care, the biggest challenge is often not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of immediate access to relevant, reliable information at the bedside.

With that in mind, I started a new project: a lightweight, mobile-friendly acute care pocket site at https://acutecare.icu. The goal is simple: make high-yield information for acute care situations available in just a few taps.

Why a pocket site?

During evening, night and weekend shifts, and on busy acute admission wards, you constantly switch between triage, diagnostics, treatment and communication. In those moments you do not want to dig through long protocol documents or overloaded guideline apps.

The pocket site focuses on:

• Fast navigation for common acute presentations
• Clear, concise checklists and flow charts
• Content that works well on a phone screen in the resuscitation room, ward or ambulance

What is inside (and what will follow)

The first version focuses on core topics I encounter daily in acute and intensive care oriented settings, including:

• Dyspnoea and respiratory failure
• Shock and haemodynamic instability
• Sepsis and serious infections
• Practical POCUS anchors for acute decision-making

Over time, I plan to expand the content with more structured acute care pathways, teaching material and POCUS-based decision support.

How I use it myself

I built the pocket site primarily for my own practice, to have a single, consistent reference for acute care reasoning, regardless of which hospital or setting I am working in. It also serves as a teaching tool for residents and students during on-the-job supervision.

If you are interested, feel free to take a look at https://acutecare.icu and reach out via LinkedIn with feedback or ideas for improvement.