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Resource of the Month: Bifurcaid

In honor of American Heart Month, February's "Resource of the Month" is Bifurcaid. 

With the combined efforts of Mount Sinai's Interventional Cardiology department and the Sinai AppLab, the Bifurcaid app was developed as a means of guiding and teaching interventional cardiologists the different techniques of coronary bifurcation interventions, in a step by step manner. This app simplifies the process of coronary bifurcation and is an educative tool for young professionals. It is extremely user-friendly and is a good medium for interventionalists to help guide them during their procedures.

The Bifurcaid app provides: 
• The basics of bifurcation stenting and the reasons behind the use of specific equipment through the glossary section. 
• Two separate sections for the different entities of Left Main Bifurcation and Non Left Main Bifurcation since the techniques are different in the two disease processes. 
• An easy way to navigate back and forth between the various combinations and permutations of disease in the main and side branch to devise a treatment plan and walks the user through each step of the technique.
• A glossary section titled ‘The Basics’ that has a detailed description of all the equipment required, including the type of guide and guidewires to use and the size and type of balloons and stents to use in different scenarios. 
• A section regarding methods of troubleshooting when wires or stent delivery systems and balloons are difficult to deliver. 
• Hyperlinks to the glossary section from the text in the main app which will help the user reference the text without having to exit that particular step in the algorithm.

You can find Bifurcaid on Levy Library's mobile apps resource page.