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Mobile Anaesthesia Companion · UK

Before your list. The guideline, in seconds.

A quick reference for the start of the list — refresh the UK guideline instead of trawling the PDF. Calculators and decision aids, distilled and cited. Handy for FRCA revision too. Free, offline, on your phone.

Tools14
SourcesUK guidelines, cited
OfflineWorks as an app
TrackingNone

Distilled from Association of Anaesthetists · Difficult Airway Society · CPOC · Resuscitation Council UK · BJA Education · SOBA · BIHS · STOP-Bang

Decision support only. Tools marked DRAFT have not yet completed clinical verification. Always check against the source guideline and your local policy; nothing here is a substitute for clinical judgement.

Drugs & doses

DRAFT

Local anaesthetic dose

Maximum safe dose by weight — combines multiple agents and flags additive toxicity.

BJA Educ 2015 · QRH 3-10
VERIFIED

Steroid cover

Perioperative glucocorticoid supplementation for adrenal insufficiency & long-term steroids.

Assoc. Anaesthetists 2020 · Verified 3 Jul 2026
DRAFT

Body weight & TIVA

Ideal, lean and adjusted body weight — which to use for which drug.

SOBA 2022 · Janmahasatian
DRAFT

Diabetes drugs & surgery

What to do with each diabetes medication on the day before and day of surgery.

CPOC 2023
DRAFT

Flozins & GLP-1 agonists

SGLT2 inhibitors and weight-loss drugs — ketosis risk, fasting rules, when to withhold.

AoA GLP-1 2025

Day of surgery

DRAFT

Hyperglycaemia now

CBG is high in the holding bay — proceed, correct, or postpone? Ketones, insulin, VRIII.

CPOC 2023
DRAFT

Perioperative anaphylaxis

Recognition and dosing reference card — adrenaline by grade, tryptase timing, follow-up.

RCUK / Dodd 2024

Airway

DRAFT

Difficult intubation rescue

Unanticipated difficulty — Plan A to D, stop-and-think options, and emergency front-of-neck access.

DAS 2015
DRAFT

Awake intubation (ATI)

The sTOP setup and a lidocaine topicalisation budget calculated to lean body weight.

DAS 2019 · Ahmad
DRAFT

Extubation planner

Low-risk or at-risk? Stratify, then choose — awake, Bailey, remifentanil or exchange catheter.

DAS 2012 · Popat

Pre-op clinic

DRAFT

Blocks & anticoagulation

Neuraxial and peripheral blocks in the anticoagulated patient — stop and restart timing.

AoA 2013
DRAFT

Pre-op blood pressure

Hypertension found at pre-assessment — proceed or defer, and what counts as controlled.

AoA / BIHS 2016
DRAFT

Pre-op anaemia

Low Hb before surgery — investigate, treat with oral vs IV iron, or proceed.

CPOC 2025
DRAFT

Sleep apnoea / STOP-Bang

Screen for OSA and plan the anaesthetic — risk score, day-case suitability, CPAP.

STOP-Bang · UK OSA guidance
Why trust it

Built like a guideline, not a blog.

Cited & dated

Every tool names its source guideline — Association of Anaesthetists, CPOC, RCUK and others — and shows a last-verified date. Nothing is paraphrased from memory.

Offline by design

Installs as an app and keeps working with no signal — in the anaesthetic room, theatre basement, or on the train to your FRCA viva.

Private by default

No accounts, no analytics, no cookies. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you enter ever leaves your device.

Put MAC in your pocket.

MAC installs straight from the browser — no app store, no sign-up, nothing to pay.

iPhone / iPadOpen in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen
AndroidOpen in Chrome → Menu ⋮ → Install app