Development preview: global-health references for anesthesia

By Conor Early, CRNA, creator of GlottaVue Anesthesia.

Published October 6, 2026. A retrospective on development completed October 5.

GlottaVue's next reference expansion brings conditions relevant to global health and resource-limited settings into one browsable collection. The work adds 20 draft disease references and connects them with ten existing topics, so a student or CRNA can find related material without knowing every individual search term.

Development preview: these additions are implemented in the development version only. They are not included in the currently released app or the existing iOS build submitted for review. Independent clinical review is still pending, and a future app build is required before they can reach users.

What the collection brings together

The 20 additions include dengue, leptospirosis, enteric fever, cholera, Lassa fever, yellow fever, several parasitic infections, leprosy, noma, Buruli ulcer and mycetoma. The collection also links to existing references such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, sickle cell disease and malnutrition. Existing entries retain their content and destinations.

Each new entry follows the same 13-section structure: immediate priorities, disease mechanisms, clinical features, preoperative assessment, investigations, airway assessment, intraoperative considerations, regional anesthesia and positioning, medication cautions, monitoring, recovery, children and pregnancy, and resource planning or referral. A separate Sources and clinical scope section explains the basis and limits of the text.

How the development workflow works

In the development version, open Disease Reference → Global health to browse the 30 linked references. Search also supports individual condition names and collection terms such as “global health” or “LMIC.” Open an entry, use its section shortcuts, and star it to keep its exact destination in favorites.

The new conditions can also be selected in the existing offline care-plan reference workflow. That brings reference material into preparation; it does not establish that a plan is appropriate for a particular patient. The care-plan guide explains the broader workflow, and the offline reference guide explains how linked topics fit together.

What still needs review

The collection is designed for offline reading once bundled in a future release. It adds no new dosing rules and does not change the Assistant's reference grounding. The new monographs remain editorial drafts, including their perioperative applications. Source citations and successful software checks do not establish clinical validation or extend approval from older references to this new material.

Before release, the content needs clinical review against current national guidance and local anesthesia practice, including the realities of available monitoring, medicines and referral options. If you have a suggestion for the collection's organization or a topic it should address, use the GlottaVue contact page without including patient identifiers.