SurgMan — short for Surgical Management — is a family of free companion apps, one per surgical specialty, that you can download straight to your phone. Built to put the guidance you actually need on an on-call shift in one place, in under a second.
Free to download · no account, no paywallAdd the one for your current rotation to your home screen — there's no need to install them all.
10 specialties — each its own free, standalone app
Tap the specialty card you need, below
Install it as an app on your home screen
If you've ever been on call and needed the NICE threshold for referring a suspected testicular torsion, or what GIRFT actually recommends for handling a neck-of-femur fracture, you'll know the guidance exists — somewhere. It's just scattered across a dozen PDFs, three different trust intranets, and whatever your registrar happens to remember from exam revision. None of that is much use to you at 3am with a bleep going off.
SurgMan distils it down. Each app takes one specialty and pulls together everything an SHO actually reaches for on a shift: the presentations you'll see most often and how to work them up or refer them, structured clerking proformas for common admissions, the bedside procedures and classification systems you're expected to know, and a clear signpost to the real NICE, GIRFT, and national society guidance behind each of them — so you're never more than a tap away from the source.
The common calls for that specialty, with how to work each one up and where it needs to go next — ward, registrar, or theatre.
Structured clerking proformas, step-by-step bedside procedures, and the classification systems you're expected to know cold.
NICE, GIRFT, and the relevant national specialty society, condensed and cited — so you can always trace it back to the source.
Consent conversations get rushed, especially out of hours, and it's easy to feel less sure than you'd like about a procedure you don't do every day. Every app has a dedicated Consent section covering that specialty's key operative procedures — plainly stating why the operation is actually being offered, and setting out the risks worth talking through, ordered from what a patient is most likely to experience to what's rare but serious. It's built to make you a well-informed part of that conversation, not to replace the person actually taking consent.
Each specialty above installs to your home screen separately, so it opens full-screen with its own icon — exactly like an app from the store. It takes about ten seconds.
Each specialty is a separate install, so your home screen only fills up with the ones you actually use.
Spotted something out of date, or a specialty missing something it needs? Tell us — this is built to keep improving with the people actually using it on shift.
Send feedbackFraxMan has its own dedicated contact address — use the button inside FraxMan itself for fracture-management-specific feedback.
