QxMD Software is pleased to release Pedi-STAT, a rapid reference for RNs, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals caring for pediatric patients in the emergency or critical care environment.

With just a few taps, users have access to all necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based and age specific medication dosages and equipment sizes.

All results can be calculated rapidly with only a known age, date-of-birth, weight, length, or height.

Pedi-STAT features include:

• Rapid results for airway interventions including endotracheal tube sizes, depth, intubation medication dosages, ventilator settings, and sedation
• Cardiac resuscitation data including weight specific dosages for resuscitation medications, cardioversion, and defibrillation
• Access to age and weight specific pediatric equipment including foley catheters, airway management, chest and NG tubes, peripheral and central line sizes, and more
• Seizure medication dosages
• Management of hypoglycemia including age specific dextrose concentrations
• Reference of age specific normal vital signs
• Procedural sedation dosages including single dose meds and infusions, as well as reversal agents
• Calculated pain management medications
• Medical management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis

Developed by an Emergency Physician, this app minimizes the risk of medical errors allowing the provider to spend more time caring for the patient, and less time looking up and calculating doses.

Revenue from this app supports development of free medical software such as Cardio Calc, Neph Calc, Heme Calc, GI Calc, H1N1 Update.

Learn more at www.QxMD.com/pedi-stat-for-iPhone
Get from iTunes App Store at bit.ly/ixLET

**** In the Top 30 Medical Apps for over a 2 weeks! ****

— New and Updated! –

Recently, July 4th occurred in the United States.   It is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. However,  the Fourth also has a more ominous travel statistic — it’s the deadliest day of the year for motor vehicle accidents, with an average of 154 people killed in crashes nationwide, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. July 3 is the second deadliest day, with an average of 152 deaths, according to the institute, which looked at traffic deaths from 2002 to 2007.

ARE YOU PREPARED IN AN EMERGENCY?

iEmergency is the most comprehensive  emergency iPhone app on the market today.  It is designed to keep your emergency medical information and In Case of Emergency (ICE) contacts all in one place. Furthermore, iEmergency also can be used on locked phones with our Wallpaper Creator utility.

Save Medical information such as:
- Medical conditions (epilepsy, diabetes, heart conditions)
- Allergies (Bee stings, Food allergies, Drug allergies)
- Medications / Prescriptions

More information on our website  http://www.kavapoint.com and you can download it from the iTunes store http://bit.ly/iEmergency

A recent landmark article published online in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that using a simple 19-step safety checklist (the Surgical Safety Checklist) in the operating room can significantly reduce post-operative complications. 

Specifically, death after surgery was reduced by more than 40%.
 
Prompted by this scholarly article, QxMD Software has adapted the Surgical Safety Checklist into the iPhone Medical App ‘Safe OR‘ within a week of the online publication of the results in an effort to facilitate knowledge translation into clinical practice. 

‘Safe OR‘ is designed to help surgeons, anaesthetists, OR nurses and other health care professionals reduce the risk of surgical complications and death.

While the life-saving intervention is simple, remembering the 19-item checklist may be challenging for busy surgical teams. This iPhone App can be implemented immediately with minimal training.
 
Though there are an estimated 234 million operations performed annually worldwide, surgical complications remain common and often preventable. The WHO has developed the ‘Surgical Safety Checklist’ in an effort to help surgical teams confirm that critical safety steps are completed before an operation proceeds.

Reference:

Haynes et al for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group
A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population
Published before print at www.nejm.org January 14, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMsa0810119)

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/NEJMsa0810119

Learn more about ‘Safe OR’ at http://www.SafeOR.org

Get the app directly from Apple iTunes

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QxMD Software is not affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Safe Surgery Save Lives initiative.