ICU Advantage Rapid Reference
ICU Advantage LLC Medical iPhoneiPadiPod touch
ICU Advantage Rapid Reference is a free Medical app for iPhone and iPad by ICU Advantage LLC. Rated 4.9/5 from 126 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.9
- 126 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 93 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Sep 5
- 2026 · v1.1.4
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About ICU Advantage Rapid Reference
ICU Advantage Rapid Reference is the critical care reference built for ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and every clinician caring for critically ill patients. Built to help you understand the complexity of critical care, not just looking things up and forgetting them, while also giving you an extensive collection of tools right at your fingertips when you need 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, residents, fellows, attendings, advanced practice providers, and anyone else caring for patients in the ICU. Whether you are a new ICU nurse or have been running codes for twenty years, Rapid Reference meets you where you are, gives you the deep clinical understanding you want and the tools you actually need, and helps you to keep learning and growing wherever you are. 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 and so much more: select criteria, get scores fast • Interactive emergency and resuscitation protocols, from ACLS algorithms to airway emergencies to MTP and more: 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! And even more yet to come still! 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 Reference 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 not just look great, but to easily navigate the huge collection of resources. And it stays readable in dark mode or light mode, on iPhone and iPad. Works fully offline, so it's 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 designed for health care professionals working in critical care in the ICU. 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: [email protected] Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
Ratings & reviews
4.9
126 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.1.4 · Updated September 5, 2026
Medications are easier to find, and search results takes you straight to the right part of the page! Medications - Browse A to Z, not just by drug class. There is a new switch on the Medications tab. - New filter box. Start typing and it pulls up matching drugs from every category at once. - Drugs that belong in more than one class now show up in all of them. Benzodiazepines appear under Antiepileptics, magnesium sulfate under Antiarrhythmics. - Every category now has its own new color and new icon which better represents the category. Search - Tap a search result and the page opens on the section that matches your search, with your search words highlighted in blue. - Results with several matches get a "Show sections" button, so you can pick the one you want, and go right to it. - Results now say which category a drug is in, and the line no longer gets cut off. Also - The How It Works guide covers everything new, and its rows open the section they name. - Hemodynamic monitoring and arterial waveform content reviewed for consistency across the app. - Even more arterial line waveforms should be updating in the app very soon via the content library updates.
App privacy
The developer, ICU Advantage LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|
| ICU Advantage Rapid Reference | 4.9 / 5 (126 ratings) | Free | September 5, 2026 |
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