2023 Update -

This solution was featured as part of the Nov 2022 IHE USA Path to Production series (#6). That video is available here:

Radford EMS Protocols -

The Radford EMS Protocols app is a cross-platform Flutter app designed to quickly view, interact, and search through PDFs. The app allows EMTs to access the guidelines and protocols necessary for on-shift patient care.

This app builds heavily on the use of interactive PDFs. For example, a separate PDF exists for each year the protocol was updated / released. For future projects, additional PDFs may be created to satisfy different needs, such as locations, agencies, clinical settings, etc.

Customization / Scalability

• All features in the Radford EMS Protocols app are similar to our WVEMS Protocols app, given they are both based on the same open-source backbone.

• If you are interested in harnessing your own PDF guidelines and protocols, contact us and we can discuss pricing.

Features

• Navigate between pages using links on the Table of Contents or swiping up / down. Click on underlined text to go to a linked page. Press the Home key to go back to the Table of Contents

• Click the settings icon to download other PDFs or to change between light / dark themes

• This feature uses Firebase authentication and Firebase cloud storage, via FlutterFire

• Use the bar at the top to search PDF content, including a history of your last 10 searches

• Firebase cloud messaging makes it so that the EMS agency can send the occasional push notification to its users