Archive for June, 2005

The Washington Manual® Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Consult

Skyscape has released The Washington Manual® Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Consult 8.0.3:

Prepared by residents and fellows, this handy consult reference covers the full spectrum of infectious disease problems. It offers clinicians valuable assistance in determining what infections the patient is at risk for, where and how (s)he acquired the infection, how to evaluate and manage the [...]

Breast Ca,

Dr. Harvey Katzen has suggested I add in the Gail Breast Ca. model to Haemoncrules but after looking at Philip Cheng’s excellent freeware BreastCa 1.0, I don’t think I could do better!

BreastCa is a breast cancer risk prediction tool for the Palm Computing Platform. In particular, it is designed to be a fast, easy-to-use, and [...]

Haemoncrules 1.9

Version 1.9 has been updated in Palmgear.
What’s new:
- the MDS prognostic score had an error as pointed out
by Dr Ivanov Vadim of Institut Paoli-Calmettes,
Marseilles. This has been corrected.
- added a Febrile Neutropenia Risk module.
For more details (version history, list of modules etc.) please visit the HaemOncRules Homepage
I have also made some changes to the [...]

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th Ed.

Skyscape has released the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th Ed.

Description:
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine covers all areas of internal medicine and provides rapid, on-the-spot access to evidence-based clinical management. Its characteristic style - combining incisive guidance with wit, a lucid style, and memorable epigrams - has been popular with generations of medical students [...]

Valuable lessons

Skyscape has user story in Valuable lessons from an oncologist who maximizes learning with a Palm

I have used Griffith’s 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2005 since I was an Intern, and now as a 2nd year oncology fellow, I have been using AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook & Calculator and Physicians’ Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual 2005 constantly. Having [...]

palmOne releases update patch for the T5

Well, well. I thought it would never happen, but better late then never.
All you people using a T5 can now head over and download the T5 1.1 update
The most important thing to me is that 3rd party backup programs now seem to work properly. Backups, especially if you carry with you precious clinical/medical data, are [...]

Viewing native PDF documents part II

This is a continuation of Viewing native PDF documents (part I ) on your palmOne PDA.
After a bit of experimentation with tips from 1Src, I got Picsel Browser to work full screen on my T3 i.e. display as 320×480. This is so much better as it will show more information at a glance.
The key tools [...]

Healthy living

PAcific Primary Care has released Healthy Dieting and Exercise as freeware

Description:
This text gives many great examples on how to get started on healthy eating, regular physical fitness and details stress management for persons of all ages.
This text is directed toward health care providers to assist them in the education of their patients.
Feel free to distribute [...]

Be yet WISER

Well that’s my alma mater’s motto.
WISER is also the acronym for “Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders” and is a Palm OS-based system designed to assist first responders in identifying and dealing with hazardous material incidents. The system provides access to 390 of the over 4,700 hazardous materials from NLM’s Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), [...]

Sanford Guide 2005 PDA edition

The new Sanford Guide 2005 PDA edition is now available for download.
The PDA version, for both Palm and Pocket PC platforms, contains the complete contents of the 35th edition of The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy.
The new features for Sanford Guide 2005, PDA edition include:
* Searchable version of the complete index [...]