Help & guides
Short guides, in the order you need them: setting up, keeping your account and cases safe, working a normal week, and answering for the record.
Get set up
The quiet-moment work that makes every new case open with the right answers already in place.
Set Capnolog up for your hospital
Add your hospitals, generate your rooms, and say which name on the OR board is yours.
Read guideYour attendings, surgeons, and saved names
Build the lists Capnolog fills from — and fix one when it is wrong.
Read guideMake Capnolog work the way you do
Theme, units, note behavior, the app lock, and the planning preferences most people never find.
Read guideWrite your block year down once
Thirteen rows that stop the app guessing where you were.
Read guideSet your training year, and fix a year warning
One answer stamps every case with the right year. Two warnings tell you when the ACGME disagrees.
Read guideAccount and safety
Signing in, the backup that restores on a new phone, the lock on the app, and how to reach support.
Verify a co-resident in person
Compare codes with a co-resident face to face once, then mark the pair verified.
Read guideSign in, sign out, or delete your account
One free account links your phone, your computer, and the ACGME extension.
Read guideBack up your cases and move to a new phone
The backup is on from the first day, and a new phone offers to bring everything across.
Read guideLock Capnolog with Face ID
The lock is on from the start. You choose how long the app waits before locking.
Read guideGet help, or send a support report
Write to a person, and attach a report that shows what the app did.
Read guideDay to day
Logging, planning, finding things again, and getting something back when you delete it.
Log a case in seconds
Tap the answers or use a template, and never lose a case.
Read guidePlan tomorrow, log in a tap
Set up tomorrow's OR board the night before — then log each case in one tap.
Read guideShare your templates & attending notes
Share a case template or an attending note with your program, and use the ones your co-residents shared.
Read guideShare a plan with a co-resident
Hand off an anesthetic plan to a co-resident, or plan the case together with a senior on two phones.
Read guideShare a case with a co-resident
Send a neurosurgery case to the co-resident who scrubbed in, who reviews the case and adds the case or declines.
Read guideFind any case again
Search, quick filters, a heatmap and a month rail — all narrowing the same list.
Read guideRecover something you deleted
Cases, plans and notes sit in a 30-day bin — and a separate history says whether it was you.
Read guideTemplates, presets, and dotphrases
Make your common cases one tap, and your common paragraphs three keystrokes.
Read guideTurn a case note into a notebook entry
Promote the note you wrote on a case into a real note you can find later.
Read guideClinical calculators, catalogued by question
124 calculators filed under the question you are asking, not the organ system.
Read guideGet a reminder to log your cases
One notification, at the time you pick, every day or once a week.
Read guideLog a case from the Home Screen
An iPhone widget with a button for each case you do often, plus one for voice.
Read guideEdit or delete a saved case
Open the case, tap Edit, and fix it. A deleted case waits thirty days before it is gone.
Read guideFlag a case to find it later
Research, Case report, M&M, and Teaching lists, plus lists of your own.
Read guideRecord a complication, privately
A private list on the case. Nothing on the list is ever sent to the ACGME.
Read guideLog a procedure without a full case
An arterial line or a block you placed counts without an ASA class or an anesthesia type.
Read guideAdd the patient's history to a plan
Past medical history by body system, prior anesthetics, and three buttons that fill the plan for you.
Read guideRecords and submission
Your progress toward the ACGME minimums, what the official log already has, and the files other people ask you for.
ACGME Case Log (ADS) Login & Submission Guide
Sign in to the official ACGME Case Log in ADS; the Capnolog extension fills each case, and you review it and press Submit.
Read guideLog ACGME cases without signing in every time
Log each case on your phone, then file the batch at a computer in one sitting.
Read guideKnow if you'll graduate
Track the ACGME minimum with the national average beside it — at a glance.
Read guideImport a case list from a document
Paste it, or open the PDF — you review what was read before anything is saved.
Read guideExport your case log
Three kinds of copy: the cases not yet sent, your whole record, and a PDF for credentialing.
Read guideWhat the extension's messages mean
Not connected, not accepted, could not confirm: what each one means and what to do next.
Read guideCatching up when you are months behind
The order to do it in, so you are current in an evening instead of retyping a year.
Read guideWhat the ACGME already has
Read your official list back, from the phone (1.3.0) or the paired extension, so “have I logged that?” has an answer.
Read guideHow to enter an anesthesia case in the ACGME Case Log
Every field on the anesthesiology entry form, what goes in each one, and the counting rules the ACGME publishes.
Read guideFix or delete a case after you submit it to the ACGME
While you are active in your program, you can edit or delete your own submitted cases. After archival, the log is view only.
Read guideDo clinical base year cases count in the ACGME Case Log?
The ACGME says to log them as Case Year 1. Whether they count toward the anesthesiology minimums is not in writing.
Read guideHow to export your case log for credentialing
What a personal case record can and cannot do when someone asks for your numbers — and how to have one ready.
Read guideFile ACGME cases from your phone
In anesthesiology, Capnolog 1.3.0 fills ACGME's own form on your iPhone, one case at a time. You check the form and press Submit.
Read guideIn depth
Longer reads on the parts of residency this app exists for — worth reading even if you never install anything.
The best way to log ACGME cases in residency
Same-day logging beats a perfect system you abandon in November. What actually works, and why.
ReadThe best way to track attending preferences in residency
Preference cards, room setups, and attending-specific notes.
ReadThe best board and ITE review strategy for residents
What the evidence actually supports, what question banks are good at, and where they leave you.
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Getting started
On first launch, Capnolog walks you through your program, training dates, and your rooms and attendings — then a 30-second practice case. After that, your defaults are set and logging is just a tap.
Your data & privacy
No patient identifiers, encrypted on-device, locked behind Face ID. Export your log to CSV or erase everything from Settings at any time. Read more.
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