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ECG Atlas

By admin | Published: May 8, 2010

ECG Atlas gives you a large collection of real-life ECGs in your pocket. Short descriptions of ECG diagnoses and links to relevant Wikipedia articles for further information.

Developed for Medical Students, Doctors, Nurses, EMTs and other health care professionals.

ECG-viewer with Pinch-and-zoom, Landscape-mode and Tab-to-reset functionality. You even have the ability to copy or email ECGs!

We have included a flash-card fashion Quiz-mode that allows you to train your ECG reading skills!

57 articles and 98 ECGs – and many more in future updates!

So what’s covered in this app?

Sinus Rhythms: Normal, Sinus Arrhythmia, Brady and Tachy.

Atrial Arrhythmia: AVNRT, AVRT, Afib, Atrial Flutter, Ectopic Atrial Rhythm, PAC and WAP.

Ventricular Arrhythmia: PVC, Torsades de Pointes, VF, VT and Ventricular Escape Beats.

Conduction Abnormalities: 1st degree AV Block, 2nd degree AV Block, 3rd degree AV Block, Bifascicular Block, Trifascicular Block, Junctional Rhythm, Fascicular Blocks, LBBB, and RBBB.

Ischemic Heart Disease: Myocardial Ischemia, NSTEMI and STEMI.

Chamber Enlargement & Axis: Atrial Enlargement, Axis Deviations, LVH and RVH.

Miscellaneus: Asystole, Dextrocardia, Digoxin Effect, Early Repolarization, Hyper- and Hypokalemia, Hyper- and Hypocalcemia, Left Ventricular Aneurism, Low Voltage, Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome, Pericarditis, Prolonged QT Syndrome, Wellen’s Syndrome, Hypothermia and WPW.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please use the contact form on our webpage.

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Medical Lab Tests

By admin | Published: August 11, 2009

Rated #1 lab values application by iMedicalApps.com
Recommended by Italian Medical iPhone site MobiMed.it
Recommended by David Wolinsky on Appolicious.com
Recommended by Jake Wright on Appmodo.com

Lab Tests offers you short and concise information including normal lab values of the most common clinical laboratory tests. Reference values in US and SI units. The application is designed primarily for doctors, nurses and medical students. Might also be used by patients and anyone who wants to know the meaning of different blood tests.

Our aim has been to create an application that is easily accessible with content that is clinically relevant. The content is written for quick reference. That is, this is not an advanced textbook for the senior physician but rather a introduction to the most common laboratory tests and their interpretation.

The application covers more than one hundred blood tests.

Categories include: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Coagulation, Electrolytes & Metabolites, Arterial Blood Gas (ABG), Enzymes and proteins, Ions and trace metals, Cardiac Tests, Liver and Pancreas, Lipids, Hormones, Immunology

Entries consist of: Description, Clinical information, Reference values, Interpretation, Cautions, Clinical references

The application interface features: Categories, Alfabetical, Search and Recents.

Please read the disclaimer before use. All information in this application is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

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CliniCalc Medical Calculator

By admin | Published: August 10, 2009

CliniCalc Medical Calculator offers more than one hundred medical formulas, scores and classifications. This app is indispensable for doctors, nurses, medical students and other health care professionals.

Comprehensive background information, references and PubMed links included.

Store your favorite formulas, find the most recently used or search for formulas using keywords and short descriptions.

Full US and SI unit support.

So far we have included 148 formulas:

1.   A-a O₂ Gradient and Ratio
2.   Abbreviated Mental Test (AMTS, MMS)
3.   ABCD² Stroke Risk Score: Stroke risk after TIA
4.   Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC)
5.   Age Calculator: Precise age calculator
6.   Allowable Blood Loss
7.   Anion Gap (Serum)
8.   Anion Gap (Urine)
9.   APACHE II
10.   APGAR: Birth prognosis score
11.   ASA Classification
12.   Basal Energy Expenditure
13.   Bicarbonate Deficit
14.   Body Mass Index: Useful for assessing obesity
15.   Body Surface Area: Assessment of BSA
16.   Burn Area (Rule Of Nines): Used to assess percentage of burn
17.   Canadian CT Head Rule: Need for brain CT in minor head injury
18.   CAP PIRO Pneumonia Score
19.   Cardiac Output (ECHO): Cardiac output estimated from echocardiography
20.   Cardiac Output (Fick): Cardiac output estimated from Fick’s principle
21.   Cardiac Valve Area (Gorlin) Used in echocardiography
22.   CCS Angina Scale
23.   CHADS₂ Stroke Risk Score: Risk of stroke in atrial fibrillation
24.   Change in Serum Natrium
25.   Child-Pugh Classification: Cirrhosis survival score
26.   Cormack Classification: Intubation difficulty score
27.   Corrected Calcium for Albumin
28.   Corrected Calcium for Protein
29.   Corrected Natrium for Glucose
30.   Corrected Natrium for Lipids
31.   Corrected Natrium for Protein
32.   Corrected Phenytoin for Albumin
33.   Corrected QT (QT-c): Long QT Syndrome assessment
34.   Corticosteroids Equivalence: Converts corticosteroid doses
35.   CPIS Pneumonia Score: Risk of ventilator associated pneumonia
36.   CURB-65 Pneumonia Score: Community acquired pneumonia mortality
37.   CVC Optimal Positioning: Central venous catheter placement
38.   Delta Gap and Ratio: Assessing mixed acid-base disorders
39.   Delta PP Pulse Pressure Variation: Fluid challenge in ventilated patients
40.   Dermatome Map: Used in neurology and local anesthesia
41.   Disease Activity Scores: Disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis
42.   Dose Calculator
43.   Endotracheal Tube Size (Ped): Tube diameter assessment
44.   EuroSCORE Cardiac Surgery Risk: Cardiac surgery risk assessment
45.   Expected pCO₂ (Winters)
46.   Eye Chart (Snellen): Visus estimation
47.   Fisher Scale for SAH: Subarachnoid hemorrhage clasification
48.   Fluid Replacement For Burns: Parkland formula
49.   FOUR Coma Scale: Full Outline Unresponsiveness Score
50.   Fractional Excretion of Calcium
51.   Fractional Excretion of Natrium: Pre-renal azotemia in acute renal failure
52.   Fractional Excretion of Urea: Pre-renal azotemia in acute renal failure
53.   Framingham Cardiovascular Risk: Cardiovascular risk score
54.   Geneva Score for PE: Clinical score for PE
55.   GFR (CKD-EPI): Creatinine clearance
56.   GFR (Cockroft-Gault): Creatinine clearance
57.   GFR (Creatinine measured): Creatinine clearance
58.   GFR (MDRD): Creatinine clearance
59.   GFR (Salazar-Corcoran): Creatinine clearance in obese
60.   GFR (Schwartz): Creatinine clearance
61.   Glasgow Coma Scale (Ped): Used in head trauma
62.   Glasgow Coma Scale (Adult): Used in head trauma
63.   Glasgow EtOH Hepatitis Score: Used in alcoholic hepatitis
64.   Glasgow Outcome Scale: Disability after severe head injury
65.   Glasgow Scoring System: Used in pancreatitis
66.   GOLD Classification: Used to classify COPD
67.   Growth Velocity: Baby and child growth velocity
68.   Harvey Bradshaw Index: Activity in Crohn's disease
69.   Heart Rate (ECG): Calculate HR from ECG
70.   Henderson-Hasselbalch: Estimate components of acid/base balance
71.   Hepatitis Discriminant Fx: Maddrey Score in severe alcohol hepatitis
72.   Hunt-Hess Scale: Score Used in non-traumatic SAH
73.   Ideal Body Weight
74.   In-Flight PaO₂ Estimation: Supplemental oxygen during flight assessment
75.   Infusion Management
76.   Infusion: IV Drip Rate
77.   Infusion: Rule of Six
78.   Injury Severity Score: Score used in multiple injury trauma
79.   Interval Calculator: Precise interval between two dates
80.   Iron Deficit: Used in anemia
81.   Karnofsky Cancer Scale: Cancer performance score
82.   Kt/V (URR) Calculator: Urea reduction rate during dialysis
83.   LDL Cholesterol Calculator: Friedewald Formula
84.   Likelihood Ratios
85.   Liver Volume (Vauthey): Transplantation graft size
86.   Lung Age: Estimated from lung function (FEV1)
87.   Maintenance Fluid (Ped)
88.   Mallampati Classification: Intubation difficulty assessment
89.   Mean Arterial Pressure: Calculates MAP from Sys and Dia pressure
90.   MELD Liver Disease Score: Used in end-stage liver disease
91.   Microalbuminuria Albumin/Creatinine: Ratio used in Diabetes
92.   Molarity Molecular weight
93.   NAC Dosage Regimen: Acetaminophen/paracetamol intoxication
94.   NACA Scale for Transport: Patients needing air transport
95.   Number Needed To Treat
96.   NYHA Functional Class: Chronic heart failure
97.   O₂ Tank Remaining Time
98.   O₂ Transport Parameters: Oxygen delivery and metabolic needs
99.   Odds ⇄ Probability
100.   Opioids Equivalence: Converts opioid doses
101.   Osmolal Gap in Serum
102.   Osmolal Gap in Stool
103.   Oxygen Index
104.   Pain Visual Scale: Pain evaluation
105.   PaO₂ / FiO₂ Ratio: Index of severity of hypoxemia
106.   Pediatric Trauma Score
107.   PELD Liver Disease Score: Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease
108.   Plasma Volume: Used in plasmapheresis
109.   Pneumonia Severity Index: Community acquired pneumonia mortality
110.   Post-test Probability (Likelihood Ratio): Bayes theorem
111.   Post-test Probability (Sn/Sp): Bayes theorem
112.   Predicted Peak Flow (Adults): Used in asthma
113.   Pregnancy Wheel: Estimation of delivery date
114.   Pressure Gradient: Used in echocardiography
115.   Protein Excretion: Estimated proteinuria
116.   Pulmonary Embolism Rule-Out Criteria: PERC Criteria
117.   Ramsay Sedation Scale: Monitor sedation level in ICU
118.   Ranson's Score: Used in acute pancreatitis
119.   Red Blood Cell Indices: Calculates MCV, MCH and MCHC
120.   Resuscitation Doses (Ped): Dosing medication used during CPR
121.   Reticulocyte Index: Adjusts reticulocyte count
122.   Revised Trauma Score: Who should be treated in a trauma center
123.   Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale: Monitors sedation level in ICU
124.   Sedation-Agitation Scale
125.   Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Determine the cause of ascites
126.   SF Syncope Rule: Serious outcome after syncope
127.   SOFA Sepsis Score: Organ failure in sepsis
128.   Spirometric Values: Calculates FEV1 and FVC
129.   Target Height
130.   TASH Hemorrhage Score: Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage
131.   Teeth Numbering
132.   Tidal Volume: Tidal volume used in ventilated ARDS patients
133.   TIMI Score for NSTEMI: Myocardial infarction risk score
134.   TIMI Score for STEMI/UAP: Myocardial infarction risk score
135.   Transtubular K Gradient: Used to identify hypoaldosteronism
136.   Tubular PO4 Reabsorption: Used to identify hyperparathyroidism
137.   Two-Way Table
138.   Units Conversion (Chemistry)
139.   Units Conversion (Physics)
140.   Urinary Excretion of Calcium: Dertermining Calciuria
141.   Urine Output
142.   VAP PIRO Score: Ventilator associated pneumonia mortality in ICU
143.   Vascular Resistances: Systemic and pulmonary resistence
144.   Water Deficit: Correction of hypernatremia
145.   Wells Score for DVT: Deep vein thrombosis risk score
146.   Wells Score for PE: Pulmonary embolism risk score
147.   WFNS SAH Grade: Subarachnoid hemorrhage grade
148.    DIC Score

..and more will be added continuously. Please use the contact form on the website if you have any comments or suggestions.

This application is for educational purposes only. Please read the Disclaimer before use.

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Skadebogen

By admin | Published: August 9, 2009

Skadebogen: Ortopædkirurgiske skader 10. udgave. Af Overlæge Dr. Med. Bengt Lund og Speciallæge Svend-Erik Heiselberg.

Vurdering og behandling af de almindeligste ortopædkirurgiske skader. Skadebogen er et praktisk opslagsværk i lommeformat. Den giver behandlingsforslag til de almindeligste ortopædkirurgiske skader med angivelse af tidshorisont og evt. komplikationer.

Der er klassifikationsoversigt af frakturer og oversigter over vurdering ved forbrændinger, multitraumer, kranie- og hjerneskader, columna- og medullaskader, thoraxskader, tandskader, øjen- og øreskader.

Denne version er specielt udarbejdet til Apple iPhone og iPod Touch og kræver ikke internet adgang.

Der vil komme løbende gratis opdateringer. Ved mangler og fejl modtager vi meget gerne henvendelser via kontaktformularen på hjemmesiden.

Næste opdatering vil indeholde: hyppigt anvendte ICD-10 koder.

English Description: Emergency Room Orthopedics. Concise description of the most common conditions in orthopedic surgery as seen in the emergency room. This book has been a classic for many years among young interns and residents in Scandinavia.

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Childhood Diseases

By admin | Published: July 8, 2009

Featured in iPhone Life Magazine: “Top Healthcare Apps for New Parents” (Winter 2010, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 35) pdf

Childhood Diseases offers you quick text reference and illustrations of more than fifty of the most common diseases in childhood.

It gives you a short description of each disease including: General information, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment.

Our aim has been to create an application that can be used by anyone who seeks basic information about the most common childhood diseases: Parents, kindergarten teachers, health care workers, GPs, physicians and medical students.

This is not an advanced textbook for the senior medical professional.

The contents has been organized into categories: Cough, Diarrhea, Fever, Rash, Running Nose, Vomiting and Parasites.

It is possible to search for specific diagnoses alphabetical or in free text.

A quiz mode allows you to review the illustrations in a “flash card” fashion.

More than 50+ articles are included. Among these are: Meningitis, Chickenpox, Ear Infection, Flu, Swineflu, Head Lice, Malaria, Measles, Mumps, Pneumonia, Scarlet fever, Thrush, Whooping Cough etc.

Based on information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Image Library (PHIL).

Please read the disclaimer before use. All information in this application is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

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