At QxMD, we are pleased and honored to have had our software reviewed and selected for use in a formal medical school curriculum.   We endeavor to provide the highest quality paid and free mobile medical apps.  Since its release in December 2008, ‘The ECG Guide” has consistently ranked as a top paid medical application.

Learn more about The ECG Guide or download it from the iTunes App Store.

Written by the author of ‘The ECG guide’ and ‘Cardio Calc’, ‘The AF Guide‘ covers the following topics:

✦ Management of acute atrial fibrillation (as encountered in the ER, ICU or hospital ward)
✦ Management of chronic atrial fibrillation with subsections dealing specifically with the strategies of rate control and rhythm control
✦ Using evidence-based strategies to decide when to use anticoagulation vs antiplatelet agents
✦ Balancing risk of stroke vs risk of bleeding in language that is easy to comprehend for health care professionals and patients alike

Key features include:

✔ Estimate stroke and bleeding risk with a concise, evidence-based recommendation as to whether treatment is most appropriate with antiplatelet agents or anticoagulation.

✔ Explain competing risks of stroke vs bleeding in terms patients and health care professionals can understand. ✔ Warfarin dose calculator – Once the decision is made to start chronic anticoagulation, this tool provides simple dosing recommendations based on INR and current warfarin dose.

✔ E-mail results to your patient

✦ Send your recommendations and rationale for treatment directly to your patient
✦ Send warfarin dosing directly to your patient.

✔ Quick access to drugs and dosing needed when managing patient in the acute setting

The Simplexity-powered website will help QxMD users gain access to special educational pricing when they upgrade or buy new BlackBerry devices.  Users are expected to save time and money due to accesss to  an unmatched selection of wireless plans, cell phones and accessories.

For more information about this program, visit http://www.QxMD.com/EducationalPricing.

About Simplexity

Simplexity is the leading online retailer of cell phones and wireless plans. Simplexity’s technology solutions include merchandising, procurement, customer service, billing, customer relationship marketing, order processing and cell phone activations for the largest carriers in the U.S. They operate private label websites for some of the largest names in retail using unrivaled, proprietary systems.  For more information about the company, its products and services, visit the Simplexity corporate website at www.simplexity.com.

Recognized Apps include:

The ECG Guide

Cardio Calc

GI Calc

Pregancy Wheel

Learn more about QxMD apps on the BlackBerry App world.

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

Users can quickly access critical information accurately, without having to rely on memory or cumbersome textbooks. With just a few taps, users have access to all the necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based and age specific medication dosages and equipment sizes.

Since many of the patients present with minimal known information, all the results can be calculated rapidly with only a known age, date-of-birth, weight, length, or height.  Simply enter the known variable and the data is instantly calculated.

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. It is a critical companion for any physician, nurse, paramedic, or medical trainee involved in the care of critically ill pediatric patients.

Learn more at QxMD
Press release

Lexi-Comp announced today that their highly-rated drug information software will soon be available on a host of new devices.   Their content has been available for the Palm OS® and Pocket PC platforms for years and they’ve recently expanded to include the iPhone™ and iPod touch®.  Soon, Lexi-Comp content will be available for Palm® Pre™, Windows Mobile® 6, and Google™ Android -powered devices.

The BlackBerry App World listings can now be viewed on their webstore.  One can view listings by:

1) Category, for example medical guides:  http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/category/61
2) Developer, for example QxMD: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/198
3) Individual App, for example The ECG Guide:  http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/881

Another nice feature of the webstore is that it allows emailing a link to one’s BlackBerry device to facilitate downloading the app of interest.

Happy exploring.

1. Fitness
2. Health & Diet
3. Healthcare Services
4. Medical Guides

“Medical Guides” is where you will find applications from Skyscape, QxMD (The ECG Guide, Cardio Calc, Pregnancy Wheel, GI Calc, Heme Calc, ICD9 Coder, Neph Calc), Unbound Medicine (5 Minute Clinical Consult, Davis’s Drug Guide), Lexi-Complete, and more.

The number of medical apps pales in comparison to that found in the medical category for the iPhone.  Let’s hope that changes…