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iPhone Nephrology Clinical Calculator

Nephrology Now editors — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:21:39 +0000

QxMD Software announces the release of ’Calculate’, a free clinical calculator for the iPhone with extensive Nephrology content.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/calculate-medical-calculator/id361811483?mt=8

‘Calculate’ is focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.

Selected content

• Calculate eGFR using CKD-EPI, MDRD, Cockcroft-Gault and Mayo Quadratic
• Estimated 6 month mortality in hemodialysis patients

• Estimate risk of contrast nephropathy post-PCI and cardiovascular surgery

• PD and Home HD candidacy using MATCH-D
• Fractional Excretion of Sodium

• Fractional Excretion of Urea

• Anion Gap, Osmolal Gap, Henderson-Hasselbach

• Transtubular Potassium Gradient

• Water Deficit

• Access Recirculation

• Kt/V in hemodialysis

• Phenytoin level adjustment for renal failure

• Prognosis in Membranous Nephropathy

More than 150 Unique calculators and Decision Support tools from all areas of Medicine

Android and BlackBerry version coming soon.

Free Download Now

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