online clinical/medical calculators
Do you hate memorizing all of those equations for calculating creatinine clearance, total body free water deficit, or even conversions between the different steroids doses? Well check out this website:
or another related website
These are easy to remember urls and easy to use on the spot on the wards when you will actually need them. General categories of clinical calculations include: general, cardiology, drugs/pharm, fluids/electrolytes, obstetrics, pediatrics, pulmonary and renal.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
And best of all you are less likely to fuck it up at 3am and kill someone
March 10th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Just finished Renal, unfortunately we weren’t eligible to use online calculators.
March 11th, 2009 at 7:30 am
I think anonymous commenter has the right idea: these calculators are probably best used when you’re on the wards and have no means of double checking calculations. In the classroom (where I’m assuming you were learning renal phys or pathophys), it’s probably best to try and learn the equations