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Anesthesiology

Capnolog remembers the 2 a.m. section so you don’t have to rebuild it later.

Weeks later, when your coordinator asks you to log it, the case is already there — your rotation, your attending’s preferences and tomorrow’s board all live in the app.

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Logging

Never lose a case again.

Say it out loud, tap it in, or reuse a saved regular — a routine case is two taps. If you only have part of it, save what you have and finish later.

Planning

Tomorrow's board, set the night before.

Paste the OR board tonight or build it from cases you saved — your usual drugs drop in with a tap. Come morning, a tap confirms each case, and patient details wipe the second you log.

How the planner works

Progress

See if you'll graduate — at a glance.

Every category is graded against the ACGME minimum — the bar you actually have to clear — with the national-average volume beside it for context. Deficits sort to the top.

Notes

Stop keeping attending preferences in Apple Notes.

Say a note out loud and it files itself under whichever attending and case you mention. Checklists, photos, a Lock Screen pin — all behind Face ID, and your private notes never leave your phone.

See what a note can hold

Privacy

Your patients never enter the app.

No name, no MRN, no birthday — there's nowhere to put them. What you say runs on your phone alone, encrypted and behind Face ID or your fingerprint. One free account — Apple on iPhone, or a personal email on either phone — links your devices; your cases stay on your phone, and we hold an id and your program, never your name.

How privacy works

Two lines. One glance. Zero spreadsheets.

These are the exact categories and minimums Capnolog tracks. It counts the overlapping ones the way the ACGME actually nests them, and shows the ACGME's own national average volume right beside every minimum.

CategoryACGME min.Nat’l avg.
  • Patients <12 years100159
  • — of which <3 years2068
  • — of which <3 months511
  • Initial pain evaluation2069
  • Vaginal delivery4093
  • Cesarean section2057
  • Cardiac surgery (total)20—
  • — of which with CPB1042
  • — of which without CPB1015
  • Major-vessel procedures2053
  • Non-cardiac intrathoracic surgery2032
  • Intracerebral procedures (incl. endovascular)—41
  • — of which open cranium2035
  • Epidural anesthetics/catheters (peri-op)40118
  • Life-threatening pathology204
  • Procedures w/ spinal anesthetics (incl. C-sections)4099
  • Procedures w/ peripheral nerve blocks40145

The required minimum is the ACGME floor. The national average is your program’s real graduation bar. Capnolog tracks both for every category — these numbers come straight from the app.

What anesthesiology residents get

Capture

The Capnolog entry sheet: a Tap, Speak or Type rail across the top, saved templates under it, then ASA class and patient age as chips

Logged before you leave the room

Your usual case is mostly filled in before you even start — a tap to confirm, a tap to save, on your way out of the room.

Just say the case out loud

Rattle it off in one breath and it becomes a proper case in seconds. Nothing you say about a patient ever leaves your phone.

Or bring the whole list at once

Keep the list you already keep — a patient list in the EMR, a note on your phone, a spreadsheet. Paste it, or import the PDF that a printed patient list actually is, and Capnolog reads it on the phone into drafts you review before anything saves. It leaves names, MRNs and birthdays out, and marks the rows that match cases already in your log so the import does not double it. What it cannot see is what you already filed with the ACGME, so it asks you rather than assuming.

Your regulars, ready to go

Save your OB epidural, your cardiac on bypass, your daily block — next time, one tap sets the whole thing up.

Start a log without opening the app

A Home Screen button kicks off a log when you've got three seconds between rooms — no hunting for the app first.

The form knows the rotation you wrote down

Write your block year down once — thirteen blocks, each a label, two dates and a hospital — and a case opens at the hospital that schedule says you were at, leading with what that rotation asks for. It reports what your schedule says, never where it thinks you are, and a case you backdate resolves against its own month.

Plan & notes

A Capnolog case plan: the anesthetic, the lines, the drugs and the attending's preferences, set the night before

Every attending's quirks, in one place

Say a note out loud and it files itself under the right attending and case. Checklists, reference cards, a Lock Screen pin — behind Face ID, never scattered across a notes app.

Walk in tomorrow already ready

Paste the OR board the night before; your usual drugs drop in with one tap. Next morning a case is done the second you confirm it, and patient details wipe as soon as you log.

132 formulas, every one cited

Body weights, fluids and blood, blood gas, electrolytes, airway, hemodynamics, kidneys, liver, ICU scores and the drips — searched by name, with a blood-gas ladder that checks the numbers are internally consistent before it interprets them. A threshold prints only where a citation stands behind it; where none does, you get the number without an invented band.

Eighty-three questions, answered

An evidence library of the questions residency actually asks, each answered in a few lines and backed by the landmark papers — 240 of them, each checked against its published record and linked to the source. It surfaces the ones your own case mix raises, and it keeps retracted and tainted papers visible rather than quietly deleting them. Bundled in the app: it works in airplane mode, and nothing you look up is recorded or sent anywhere.

Track

The Capnolog progress dashboard: every ACGME category as a bar against its required minimum, deficits first

Know exactly where you stand

Two lines per category: the ACGME minimum you're measured against, and the national average volume the ACGME publishes as an editable goal beside it. Whatever you're behind on rises to the top.

No end-of-year scramble

The worst surprise is the final-year case count that never added up. Capnolog keeps the finish line in view all along — what's done, what's left, whether you're truly on track.

Keep

The Capnolog case archive: a year of logged days as a grid, a search box, filter chips, and the day's cases underneath — each row its attending, anesthetic, room and status

Find any case again

One archive, searched by procedure, room, surgeon or attending, narrowed with quick filters, or opened at one day by tapping it on the year grid. The match count, the day totals and the rows you scroll all compile to one query, so a number can never disagree with what sits under it.

Thirty days to change your mind

A deleted case, plan or note goes to a bin for thirty days and restores in a tap. Permanent removal takes a deliberate gesture, and a separate history says whether the app removed something or you did.

Private

No patient identifiers

Capnolog does not collect names, MRNs, or birthdays. Case data is encrypted on your device. Your account links devices; it stores only an account ID and program.

Encrypted iCloud backup

Backups are encrypted and stored in your iCloud account. Restore them on a new device.

Anesthesia questions

How fast is logging, really?
A routine case is two taps: your usual site, room, and attending are already filled in, and a saved template sets up the rest. If you only have part of it, save the minimum now and finish it later — the case is never lost.
Does it track the national average, or just the ACGME minimum?
Both, for every category. Your progress is graded against the ACGME minimum — that is the bar you have to clear — and the national average volume from the ACGME's own case-log report sits beside it as a goal you can edit. It is the national column, not a number from your own program: Capnolog holds no per-program volume data.
Can I set up tomorrow's board the night before?
Yes. Paste the morning OR board or start each case from one you saved, apply your usual drugs in a tap, and confirm each case the next day to log it — or log the whole day at once.
Do I have to type patient details anywhere?
There is nowhere to put them. No name, no MRN, no birthday — an anesthesiology case log in Capnolog records what kind of case it was, never whose.
Does it know what rotation I am on?
Once you have written your block schedule down, yes. Thirteen blocks, a name and a date range each, entered in one sitting. After that the app knows which rotation today belongs to: the case form leans toward the cases that rotation actually produces, the rare fields fall back behind “More detail” rather than disappearing, and a pace hint that would fire in the middle of an ICU month stays quiet. One switch turns the form-shaping off, and with it off the form is byte-for-byte the one everybody else sees. The schedule stays on the phone — never sent to a server, never in an export.
I am months behind. Do I have to retype everything?
No. Paste the list you already keep, or import the PDF that a printed patient list actually is — in Epic, print a patient list and save it to Files. Capnolog reads it on the phone into drafts you confirm, edit or throw away one at a time, leaves names, MRNs and dates of birth out of everything it reads, and marks the rows that match cases already in your log so an import does not double it. What it cannot see is what you already filed with the ACGME, so it asks you instead of assuming.

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