This app is written and intended for practicing clinicians like internists, family physicians, ER docs, cardiologists, pulmonologists, intensivists, and hospitalists; for resident physician trainees; for medical students; and of course for other clinician colleagues like NP's and PA's.
ABG Acid-Base eval walks a clinician through a stepwise approach to analyse ABG's and electrolytes in order to arrive at acid-base disorders and diagnostic ideas about ill patients.
A clinician or learner will wind up with good information that assists patient care and should wind up a little smarter and more able to do it with less assistance the next time.
As an educator and clinician, I am interested in feedback and I would be grateful for guidance on improving the tool.
This tool not only yields answers, but just as importantly teaches the stepwise thinking process and the necessary concepts along the way.
The differential diagnoses include the classic mnemonics like MUDPILERS, CHAMPS, CLEVER PD, and HARDUPS, with explanations and examples.
- patients are more than the sums of their numbers and data, and they are often unique individuals.
It is a great support for those of us clinicians who use these tests only occasionally and don't have it memorized.
Erik Rupard from the medical literature.
- the app facilitates you to evaluate the data.
It is based mainly upon a worksheet developed by Dr.
If you make a mistake, the app will not argue with you.