AirStrip OB 12+

This is clearly the finest application for the iphone for a obstetrician. As a perinatologist, I am often called about FHR tracings all over town in multiple hospitals. Airstrip allows me to respond promptly. I have used this application on windows mobile for a couple years. The iphone version raises the bar with the speed of the rendering of the tracing, the clarity, and the additional information it provides. The iphone screen allows a beautifully rendered strip. The ability to see nursing notes ensures some passing on of information to the physician while also promoting accurate documentation of information. Nurses within the hospital are aware that you can check what is being done within the hospital at anytime - increasing pitocin, checking cervical dilation, adequately displaying a FHR on a patient with a previously supicious strip, checking BPs on the patient with preeclampsia, etc.

This is an app that you cannot be without and are at a disadvantage in patient care without its use. If you have it at your hospital- get it. If you dont, you should consider approaching your hospital as this really promotes patient safety.

I have been very excited with Airstrip Ob on my phone and being able to access it at any time.  As an Ob/Gyn we are by nature multi-taskers, seeing patients in the office, while delivering patients and surgeries all likely in the same day.  Previously while performing on of my other duties such as seeing patients in the office i would have relied on the nurse to contact me if the there were any issues with a strip or intermittently, between tasks, check on my office computer. However the continuous accessability has enabled me to more times than not notice any issues on a strip before the nurse even has a chance to page me.  This easy accessabilty has made my practice more efficient, often times with the feature of checking the latest exam i  can be on L&D ready to deliver a patient before the nurse has had the opportunity to notify me of their latest exam.

I have been using Airstrip OB on a Windows Mobile Smartphone since it came out. I like (and need) it so much that I carry 2 phones, my iPhone for everything and a Samsung i760 solely for using Airstrip OB. The Phone version surpasses the Windows version by a mile. There is a more organized interface, the graphics are much clearer, and the utility is increased. In my opinion, this is an absolute must for obstetricians. If you can spend your day in labor in delivery, you may not need this program, but if you are like the rest of us, you cannot defend not having the ability to monitor fetal strips anywhere, anytime. The potential for academics is obvious. Thank you Airstrip for bringing your ingenuity to the iPhone.