Acid Plus - The ABG Calculator vs VentilO Usage & Stats

Designed, programmed, and used by two internal medicine docs, Acid Plus is an essential tool for healthcare professionals who need quick, detailed, and easy-to-interpret acid-base results from ABGs and metabolic panels. Ideal for MDs, PAs, NPs, RNs, RTs, EMTs, and med students, everything you need for acid-base calculations is put right in the palm of your hand. No more clunky ABG websites or guesswork. With an intuitive design and easy-to-read display, Acid Plus makes it a breeze to answer even the most complex acid-base problems in seconds. Just turn the device to landscape view to get a colorful graph with an arrow highlighting the disorder. *** What Others Say ************** • "This is certainly the best ABG calculator that we have seen so far on the iPhone and iPod Touch." - Firas Salim, www.pda4peds.com • "If you are practicing medicine and own an iPhone, you need to have it." - Igor Kovic, MD, www.ivor-kovic.com • "Interpreting the ABG and electrolytes to understand the acid-base status in my patients just turned from a chore into something immensely enjoyable. I cannot help smiling whenever I start this application." • "This program is awesome! You have no idea how much this helps. Thank you so much." ******************************** Features: • Fast, accurate input using the dial • Primary calculations including partial and complete compensations using anion gap with delta delta • International support for kPa • Ability to discern complex acid/base problems with secondary disorders • See the anion gap and delta delta displayed on-screen with metabolic acidoses • Detailed views listing common causes of the primary acid-base disorder • On-the-fly derivation of anion gap, delta-delta, and base excess • Rotating your device right or left to landscape view reveals a colorful interactive acid-base graph • Interactive graph helps visualize acid-base disorders quickly and powerfully • Set your own institution's anion gap easily for personalized results • Save and recall your most recent ABG for quick review • Works on iPhone and iPad If you like the program please rate it. If you have any concerns or find any bugs please contact us at support@freeradicalsoft.com DISCLAIMER: Please consider that the results provided by this program are intended to supplement but not substitute for the expertise and clinical judgment of a healthcare professional. The results and accompanying educational material are provided as is, and Free Radical does not warrant that they are accurate or up to date, although that is certainly our goal.

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VentilO

The VentilO application is a mobile educational application that allows healthcare professionals in charge of patients with mechanical ventilation: (i) to learn how to set the initial ventilatory settings in volume-controlled ventilation mode based on several parameters, (ii) to reason about the influence of different parameters on ventilatory needs in adult patients, (iii) to learn about optimization of ventilator settings for oxygenation, lung protection and CO2 elimination (iv) to learn about the impact of dead space on ventilation efficiency. The initial settings for minute ventilation (tidal volume (VT) and respiratory rate (RR)) will be proposed. The VT will be determined according to the predicted body weight, the body temperature and the type of patient (medical or surgical). VT/RR combinations for different targets of VT (3 to 10 mL / kg PBW will be provided, settings from 6 to 8 mL/kg PBW will be preferred). Educational texts are proposed to help other settings (PEEP and FiO2) in the different care contexts. ‘’Optimizing settings’’ is covered in another separate tab. Will provide calculation of several parameters (alveolar ventilation, dead space…) based on the patient’s data, ventilator settings and arterial blood gases results. In addition interpretations will be provided for Oxygenation, Ventilation (CO2) and Lung protection. In another separate tab ‘’Tools&Calculators’’, several tools are provided: -Impact of the instrumental is explained in details. Minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation (minute ventilation - dead space ventilation) are calculated. The physiological dead space is calculated according to published formulas linked to the predicted body weight of the patients, the instrumental dead space (linked to the volumes of the endotracheal tubes, connections, heat and moisture exchangers) is calculated. The impact of reducing dead space on several parameters is calculated (gain in alveolar ventilation, gain in reduction in tidal volume (and associated reduction in plateau pressure),or respiratory rate with constant alveolar ventilation) - Different Calculators (P/F ratio from SpO2, PBW…) -Links to several additional tools (Quick Reference Respiratory Care Card; O2 demand calculator, Recruitment to Inflation Ratio…) In addition to the measurements of these different parameters, several educational texts are accessible in the application to understand what dead space is during mechanical ventilation, what is instrumental dead space, what is the impact of dead space in function of ventilation settings and possible gains. These calculations and descriptions concern ventilated adult patients, in the emergency room, intensive care units and in the operating room. The VentilO application was developed with the help of several mechanical ventilation experts. The mobile application is trilingual (English, French and Spanish), based on the users settings.