Log a case in seconds
Tap “Log a case” on the Log tab and your usual site, room and attending are already filled in. Tap the answers, apply a saved template, or repeat your last case. Capnolog marks what it assumed, so a wrong guess is one tap to fix. Tap Save, or save the minimum now and finish it later from “To finish.”
By Christopher Cutler, MD, CA-1, anesthesiology
Logging is meant to take under ten seconds, so you can do it between rooms instead of reconstructing cases later. Here's the whole flow.
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Open a new case
Tap “Log a case” on the Log tab. Your usual site, room, and attending are pre-filled from your last case, so a routine case is nearly done before you start.
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Tap the answers, or use a template
Tap the answers on the form. In anesthesiology, ASA class, patient age and the anesthetic are chips. A saved template fills in a case you do often, and Repeat last on the Log tab opens a copy of your last case. In neurosurgery, tap the mic and say the operation, or type your own shorthand.
In neurosurgery, what you say is read on the phone itself and never uploaded.
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Check what Capnolog filled in
A hospital or attending that Capnolog filled in for you carries a small dot. The line under the row names the source, such as your last case or your schedule. Tap the answer to change it, or save the case as it stands. The form tells you when ASA, age or the anesthetic is still missing.
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Save — or save for later
Tap Save to log a complete case. Not finished? Save the minimum now and it lands in “To finish,” so you can add detail later without losing the case.
An Undo appears for a few seconds after every save, so a mistaken log is one tap to reverse.
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Plan tomorrow, tonight (optional)
In the Plan tab you can set up tomorrow's OR board the night before in an encrypted, on-device planner. When a case is done, log it in a tap — or batch-log the whole day at once.
Every case is encrypted on your device and behind Face ID or your fingerprint. Free account · export every case, any time.
More in day to day
Set up tomorrow's OR board the night before — then log each case in one tap.
Share a case template or an attending note with your program, and use the ones your co-residents shared.
Hand off an anesthetic plan to a co-resident, or plan the case together with a senior on two phones.
Send a neurosurgery case to the co-resident who scrubbed in, who reviews the case and adds the case or declines.