American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine: Difference between revisions
Create Company page for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), parent of the existing Incident article on the May 2026 cease-and-desist against the CoagRef app. Covers organizational history (1923 tribute society / 1975 refounding / 2021 rename), FY2024 financials from IRS 990 (~$4.87M revenue), membership tiers and pricing, the journal RAPM (BMJ partnership since 2019, hybrid open-access), three mobile reference apps, and two scored consumer-impact incidents: t... |
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In May 2026, Rishi Kumar, MD, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist who publishes a suite of free clinical reference apps at rkref.app,<ref name="rkmd-about" /> announced on his public Facebook page that he was removing '''CoagRef''', a free no-subscription iOS reference app he had written, from his websites and from the Apple App Store after receiving legal demands from lawyers representing what he described as "a large organization in anesthesiology."<ref name="kumar-fb" /> CoagRef summarized the same anticoagulation timing recommendations addressed by ASRA Coags, drawn from the publicly downloadable BMJ guideline PDFs published in ''Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine''.<ref name="rapm-horlocker-2018" /><ref name="rapm-kopp-2025" /> Kumar's post does not name the organization that sent the demands; the only anesthesiology organization that publishes a competing Coags-branded reference app whose underlying guidelines drive both products is ASRA, which makes the linkage circumstantial rather than confirmed by the developer.<ref name="kumar-fb" /><ref name="appstore-current" /> The CoagRef App Store listing at apps.apple.com/us/app/coagref/id1462215262 currently returns a 404 "The page you're looking for can't be found" error, confirming the takedown.<ref name="coagref-404" /> ASRA has not publicly addressed the CoagRef takedown, and its own apps page contains no statement about the matter.<ref name="asra-apps-page" /> | In May 2026, Rishi Kumar, MD, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist who publishes a suite of free clinical reference apps at rkref.app,<ref name="rkmd-about" /> announced on his public Facebook page that he was removing '''CoagRef''', a free no-subscription iOS reference app he had written, from his websites and from the Apple App Store after receiving legal demands from lawyers representing what he described as "a large organization in anesthesiology."<ref name="kumar-fb" /> CoagRef summarized the same anticoagulation timing recommendations addressed by ASRA Coags, drawn from the publicly downloadable BMJ guideline PDFs published in ''Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine''.<ref name="rapm-horlocker-2018" /><ref name="rapm-kopp-2025" /> Kumar's post does not name the organization that sent the demands; the only anesthesiology organization that publishes a competing Coags-branded reference app whose underlying guidelines drive both products is ASRA, which makes the linkage circumstantial rather than confirmed by the developer.<ref name="kumar-fb" /><ref name="appstore-current" /> The CoagRef App Store listing at apps.apple.com/us/app/coagref/id1462215262 currently returns a 404 "The page you're looking for can't be found" error, confirming the takedown.<ref name="coagref-404" /> ASRA has not publicly addressed the CoagRef takedown, and its own apps page contains no statement about the matter.<ref name="asra-apps-page" /> | ||
=== ASRA Coags app subscription bait-and-switch === | === ASRA Coags app subscription bait-and-switch === | ||
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The app's overall App Store rating sat at 1.3 stars across 391 ratings as of the May 2026 capture.<ref name="appstore-current" /> | The app's overall App Store rating sat at 1.3 stars across 391 ratings as of the May 2026 capture.<ref name="appstore-current" /> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||