Development and Usability Testing of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Pedi Crisis Mobile Application

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This manuscript describes the development and testing of the Pedi Crisis 2.0 app from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. We showed that an easily used and intuitive pediatric crisis checklist mobile application can be created using human factors informed design and functionality, a rapid-cycle iterative design process, and structured, intentional usability testing. Emergency manuals, which are context-relevant sets of cognitive aids or crisis checklists, have guided the performance of critical actions in high-consequence industries for decades. Developing a mobile application for pediatric perioperative life threatening events presents unique challenges due to small screen sizes and programming for different operating systems. Creative approaches to mobile application functionality and human factors principles related to readability, content organization, and navigation as well as usability testing help address these challenges.  

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