CatchUpSurg: Surgery
Sven van Egmond Medical iPhoneiPadiPod touch
CatchUpSurg: Surgery is a free Medical app for iPhone and iPad by Sven van Egmond. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 17, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v1.0.9
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About CatchUpSurg: Surgery
CatchUpSurg helps surgeons, surgical trainees, and other healthcare professionals stay current with recent surgical literature. The app searches PubMed and Europe PMC every day across a carefully selected collection of leading surgical journals. Choose the topics, study designs, and journals relevant to you, and receive a personal overview of new articles. With CatchUpSurg, you can: • Review new surgical publications quickly • Filter across surgical oncology, gastrointestinal surgery, trauma, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, pediatric surgery, transplantation, endocrine surgery, and more • Select study designs including RCTs, cohort studies, systematic reviews, and guidelines • Open articles with a clear overview of objective, methods, results, clinical relevance, and limitations • Read in Dutch, English, or Spanish • Search by title, author, abstract, topic, study design, and journal • Save relevant articles or remove them from your overview • Receive notifications when new articles match your preferences Summaries are based on the information available in the article and do not alter reported figures or outcomes. CatchUpSurg supports literature tracking. It does not replace reading the original publication or clinical decision-making.
What’s new
Version 1.0.9 · Updated October 17, 2026
New: an optimized iPad layout with sidebar navigation and comfortable reading widths. The existing iPhone layout is preserved.
App privacy
The developer, Sven van Egmond, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Product Personalization, App Functionality
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