Take Travel Med with you this summer

Travel Med is an application that describes common and uncommon medical issues that can arise before, during, or after traveling. This application was created with the non-medical professional in mind. Travel Med will guide travelers through pre-travel preparation, in-travel emergencies, and post-travel health and medical problems when immediate access to medical care may not be available. Details are provided for travel risks to all countries and continents. Immediate management of common and uncommon illness and injury that might occur while traveling or vacationing is described. Indications, dosing and side effects of commonly used medications are described. Contacts and weblinks for medical resources and travel assistance are provided. Links to government requirements for vaccines, passports, and visas, and World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control sites that describe current health issues within each region and country are provided.

What you’ll learn from Travel Med:

* Where to find the documents, visas, licenses and vaccinations required to travel internationally
* Common diseases in every continent and every country
* How to know which foods and beverages are safe while traveling
* How to sterilize water
* When it is safe for children and pregnant women to travel
* How to PREVENT dangerous illnesses: high altitude sickness, bites & stings from bugs, mosquitoes, snakes, ticks, and animals, hypothermia (cold weather injury), traveler’s diarrhea, diving & decompression illness, malaria, meningitis, heat related illness (e.g. heat stroke), influenzae, SARS, tuberculosis, and a multitude of different types of infections
* Commonly used medication information: Indications, Dosing, Use during Pregnancy and for Children, and Side Effects

More information here.

IDdx: Infectious Disease Queries for iPhone

IDdx is a decision support software tool developed by the author of OutbreakID, Dr. Jay Brown. This software is designed to help medical practitioners access information and improve the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The advantage of IDdx mobile software over a book is that it was built for queries. Users can find specific information by using the disease search criteria. The user can see all the symptoms associated with a disease or see all the diseases associated with a symptom.

* Explore the database of 275 diseases in 15 categories.
* Search by Disease Name or Disease Criteria.
* Disease criteria include 99 signs & symptoms, 39 epidemiological factors, and 16 regions of the world.
* Examples of epidemiological factors are ingest (entry), soil (source), ticks (vector), and cats (reservoir).
* Access diseases worldwide or limit the search to those endemic to the United States.
* Drill down to all infections associated with compromised hosts or bioterrorism.
* Filter the database for infections tagged as acute-severe, acute-moderate, or subacute/chronic.

Learn more here.

Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Infertility for iPhone

Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility Handbook for Clinicians, the gold-standard Ob/Gyn reference, is now available for iPhone, iPod touch, and is compatible with the iPad!

Since 1990 this pocket handbook has been used by thousands of physicians, medical students, nurse midwives, nurses and other healthcare providers. Now in this completely rewritten and revised UPDATED 6th EDITION you can find everything that you need to provide comprehensive healthcare to women on your iPhone. Written for a wide range of medical professionals, this pocket-sized compendium is dedicated to all aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology and contains over 500 tables, flowcharts and figures making each topic easier to recall. Many useful resources from recent original articles are now at your fingertips in one source-book.

Learn more here.

Schwartz's Principles of Surgery Available for iPhone

Here's an e-mail I got from my friends at the USBMIS Development Team:

We are pleased to announce the release of Schwartz's Manual of Surgery for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Schwartz's Manual of Surgery has become the resource of choice for both practicing physicians, residents, and even surgical clerkship students who are interested in a comprehensive, yet concise on-the-job manual detailing the most current practices and trends.

This edition reflects the most extensive revisions ever with a greater focus on surgical techniques and a superb array of new visuals including more tables, charts, highlighted topics throughout. New to this edition: staging tables for cancer, anesthesia guidance, pre-and-postoperative management of the surgical patient, and much more.

Click here to view it on iTunes

Labs & Formulas for iPhone

Labs & Formulas By USBMIS, Inc is available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. You'll find it on iTunes in the App Store.

Labs & Formulas provides quick access to relevant lab values along with a set of useful calculators and decision making tools.

Features:
• Rapid access to over 1,000 common lab values
• Useful calculators and decision tools
• Bookmark feature
• Automatic updates
• Calculators include:
--Common unit conversions (weight, length, pressure, etc.)
--Apgar Score
--Creatinine Clearance
--Glomerular Filtration Rate (Adult & Pediatric)
--Glasgow Coma Scale
--Wind Chill & Heat Index
--…and many more
• New calculators and other useful tools will be added in future updates

The price is $3.99 and you can get it here.

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook By USBMIS, Inc. is now available on the iTunes store. So, if you have an iPhone or iPod touch and you're working in the field of emergency medicine, you should take a look at this $19.99 medical app.

All of the vital information from the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook is now available for the iPhone or iPod Touch! The Tarascon Adult Emergency App is part of the popular Tarascon® Series which is an imprint of Jones & Bartlett Learning.

The Tarascon Adult Emergency App is the ultimate portable reference for the busy emergency physician or internist! Packed with essential lists, figures, & tables, this App provides instant reminders of hard-to-remember yet vitally important clinical information. Convenient searchable reference sections include dysrhythmia protocols, emergency drug infusions, antibiotic therapy, rapid-sequence intubation, toxicology, trauma care, burn care, and much more. Busy physicians now have all the information they need from the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook at their fingertips!

Click here to view the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook on the iTunes store.

Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) now available for the iPhone and iPod touch

Here are the details:  

We are pleased to announce that MPR – the most widely used drug reference by clinicians – is now available as a free APP for the iPhone and iPod touch. The MPR drug database is also available for free for BlackBerry, Palm, and Microsoft Mobile devices, as well as desktop and laptop computers running Microsoft XP and Microsoft Vista (www.empr.com/download).

For 25 years, you and your peers have relied on the print editions of MPR to deliver up-to-date, concise drug information at the point-of-care. Now the exact same drug information is available for the iPhone and iPod touch.

The MPR iPhone and iPod touch Application delivers:

• Over 4,000 up-to-date drug monographs accessible by therapeutic category, brand name, generic name, disease, or manufacturer
• Monographs for both prescription and OTC drugs
• Continuously updated Drug News, Alerts, and Pipeline
• Prescribing Notes for each disease state
• Over 30+ clinical calculators
• … And many more clinical tools!

To download MPR, visit the MPR App at the iTunes store now.

We hope that you find this free application useful in your daily practice!

Nothing beats a free app!
Click here to visit the Customer Support Center provided by USBMIS.

Chatting with the USBMIS team (#ACME10)

It's an honor to have the chance to chat with the USBMIS team here at the Alliance for CME meeting. If you're attending the Alliance for CME meeting, make sure to swing by the USBMIS booth to speak with this group.

Medical software for the BlackBerry

There are a growing number of medical software solutions for the BlackBerry. Here's a list to get you started:

• Epocrates
  
• Skyscape (they offer a suite a products)
• USBMIS (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, Sanford Guide)
  
• mobile MPR (Monthly Prescribing Reference)
  
• Unbound Medicine (like Skyscape, they offer a suite a products)
• PEPID
• Up to Date (via mobile web browser)
• QxMD
• mobilePDR (coming "back" soon)

This is a growing list (and this isn't a comprehensive list either). I simply wanted to highlight some of the more popular options that are out there. Navigation is often quite limited if you don't have a touch screen on your device, regardless of your operating system. The BlackBerry Storm 2 should be coming out soon (and may appear on more networks if rumors are true).

MPR: Monthly Prescribing Reference

Looking for some free medical software for your PDA or smartphone? Take a look at MPR: Monthly Prescribing Reference. You probably get these in the mail all the time. Now, you can get the digital version (eMPR) for free. They currently have software for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry. They don't have software for the Apple iPhone yet, but it sounds like they're working on it. The software developer is USBMIS.

Here's a short blurb from their website: "Download the MPR Mobile & Desktop Edition for free access to over 4,000 up-to-date, concise drug monographs on your computer or mobile device."