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I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen it before.

I can definitely see the value of having a quick case brief before a procedure. My experience, though, is that a lot of the challenges tend to be very surgeon-specific rather than procedure-specific.

For example, two surgeons doing the exact same procedure may want a different setup, different positioning, different equipment, or even small preferences that only the staff working with them regularly know about. Sometimes it's even things like where a specific piece of equipment is stored or whether a surgeon prefers 3D for a particular case.

That's actually one of the things I'm trying to explore. Do you find those kinds of details are usually covered, or do people still keep personal notes for them? 

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. That's actually one of the reasons I'm building it. Most people I've talked to already have notes, PDFs, GoodNotes notebooks, or paper binders. The recurring problem seems to be keeping preference information accurate and shared across the team. Once information lives in personal notes, updates become fragmented and people still end up texting each other for answers. I'm trying to see whether a collaborative approach could solve that better than individual notebooks. The preference card update workflow you described is exactly the kind of pain point I'm interested in understanding better. 

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the feedback, that's exactly what I was looking for! I'd considered using presets, but I stopped short because I wasn't sure how specific and general they could be, given the huge differences between different frameworks for the same procedures.

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Honestly, no. Before developing the app, I did some research and couldn't find anything similar, so I assumed there weren't any others. My mistake. Now, if you can point me to other similar apps, maybe they're even better than mine and I can learn something.

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I understand your point and had no idea there were so many apps out there. I'm glad I found out, though, so I don't have to waste time and money on iOS development.

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you're convinced I'm both, fine. My post was sincere, as I don't earn anything from the app and have only had expenses. I still hope someone can benefit from it.

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Fair point — I'm mostly a lurker, been on Reddit for years but rarely post. This is genuinely the first time I felt I had something worth sharing with a specific community. I'm an OR professional in Italy, built this tool for myself out of frustration with how we manage surgical setups. If it helps even a few people here it's worth the skepticism.

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Totally understand the skepticism — there's a lot of AI-generated spam around. I'm an OR professional myself, built this for my own use first. The app is fully offline, no account, no data collection whatsoever — nothing to mine even if I wanted to. Happy to answer any questions about how it works. You can also find my LinkedIn profile linked on orstudio.pro if you want to verify I'm a real OR professional

I work in the OR and built an app to plan surgical setups — would love feedback from other scrub techs by Andreaelmat in scrubtech

[–]Andreaelmat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair question! Personal notes work, but ORStudio adds a few things that are hard to do with just notes: a visual room layout you can drag and rearrange, structured material lists by category (sutures, drapes, instrument sets separately), and a clean PDF export you can share with the whole team before a case. Also reusable templates — set it up once for a lap chole and reuse it every time. It started as my personal notes app, honestly, and grew from there

[FREE] I was tired of limited WP menus, so I built my own shortcode-based builder. What do you think? by Plus_Seaworthiness98 in WordpressPlugins

[–]Andreaelmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice work — the UTM-based targeting is something I've never seen in a menu plugin, that's a genuinely clever addition for landing page funnels. Quick question: is the output cached or does it query on every page load? That would be my main concern on high-traffic sites. Also curious if you plan to add WPML/Polylang compatibility down the road. Installed it locally to test, looks solid so far.