Medical - Skyscape's Current Consult: Surgery Special
Medical - Skyscape's Current Consult: Surgery Special
LANGE created CURRENT Consult is forphysicians in practice and training with too much to accomplish in too little time. CURRENT Consult: Surgery brings you authoritative clinical answers on more than 360 surgically treated disorders in the most efficient format, perfectly devised for the busy physician.
When you need diagnostic and treatment information NOW, it's got to be CURRENT Consult: Surgery. CURRENT Consult: Surgery gives you practical answers more quickly and authoritatively than any other resource. A separate, unique, and valuable Diagnostic Index section presents differential diagnoses for more than 100 symptoms and signs. For quick reference, Cancer Staging Tables are included.
Key Features:
Diagnostic steps; differential diagnoses; treatment recommendations, including indications and contraindications for operative procedures; management of complications; and prognosis data
Guidance in choosing appropriate laboratory tests and imaging studies
Quick advice on When to Admit and When to Refer
Cancer staging tables
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Medical - Skyscape's Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 4th Ed
Medical - Skyscape's Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 4th Ed
The Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests is a must-have for all nursing students.
Detailed overviews of physiology to help nurses and students think critically and understand the results of laboratory and diagnostic tests and their implications for therapy.
This updated 4th edition offers detailed overviews of physiology to help nurses and students think critically and understand the results of laboratory and diagnostic tests and their implications for therapy. It aids nurses and students in understanding the basis for a test, how to know if a test is appropriate, where problems can arise, and how to explain to patients what to watch out for. The content is presented as a guiding reference for planning care, providing specific interventions, and evaluating outcomes of nursing care.
What's New:
Nursing care before, during, and after a test or procedure is thoughtfully covered
Background information and description of the test or procedure are followed directly by the reference values and other clinical applications data for each test or group of tests
For each test or study, the reference values include variations related to age or gender, if applicable
Both conventional units and international units (SI) are specified
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Description
That helps to control the glucose levels in blood, it replaces the
classic diabetes notebook. It automatically calculates the glucose
average in blood in the last 7 and 30 days.
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Description
Medical Eponyms™ is a Pocket PC program that contains a list of over
1,500 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign,
Virchow's node) with descriptions.
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Description
Calculate the transfusion requirements. You can calculate, in
patients with blood loss, the estimate blood volume and the estimate
blood loss.
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The most popular application for physicians on PDAs is some sort of pharmacopoeia. For the PocketProf project, we have chosen LexiDrugs because of better support for Canadian names, and because it works well on both the PocketPC and on the Palm OS.
It is part of suite of medical tools from Skyscape and is quite well integrated with these other components.
When you first launch LexiDrugs, you will be presented with this opening screen. (If you have not registered your copy then you may get a nag screen first.) The second icon from the left is the Index button - click on this to search the index for the drug.
You can now type in part of the name and click on it when it appears.
The opening screen for each drug starts with the US trade names. For many drugs, the Canadian names are also listed. (ePocrates does not and has little intention of supporting Canadian drug names - they have said for two years that they will implement this but it is clearly not part of their business plan.)
SmartTabs
You will see some tabs down the right side of the screen - this allows you to jump quickly to various sections on each drug. As you can see, these are not very readable - you can adjust the appearance of these by widening them a small amount but it does not take long to figure them out.
The most useful tabs are bold in the following:
U.S. Brand Names
Use
Usual Dosage
Drug Interactions
Warnings/Precautions
Contraindications
Pregnancy Risk Factor
Dosage Forms
Therapeutic Category
Adverse Reactions
Mechanism of Action
Overdosage/Toxicology
Administration
Restrictions
Test Data
Canadian Brand Names
If you find the Tab names to be confusing and ambiguous, you can change them, with Edit | SmartTabs...with this, you can rename the tabs to something you find more intuitive and change the order in which the tabs appear. (eg. move Canadian names near the top). This takes a bit of fiddling around and will not be worth it for everyone, but does allow some flexibility in customisation.
History
The icon in the middle with the small red 'h' is for History.
This allows you to go back quickly to previous sections that you have browsed.
Link
The next icon called Link allows you to link to other applications in the Skyscape suite eg. Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult.
Link will take you to the relevant section of each tool - this can be very useful. Try it to see how it works - not hard to figure out.
Annotations
The last two icons on the right are for annotations.
You can type in some short notes of your own about each entry in LexiDrugs. Just click the Notes icon again to save your annotations. Next time you come back to that entry, you can quickly bring up your own stuff.
The icon just to the right lights up when you are in Annotation mode, allowing you to dictate a short voice note about this entry! It is stored with the entry.
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