Free guidelines software for pda

NHLBI/NAEPP Asthma Guidelines 1.0 is created to be an interactive succinct and practical point-of-care reference to the full NAEPP Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Contents include Initial Diagnosis and Assessment, Control of Contributing Factors, Pharmacologic Treatment, Treatment of Exacerbations, Medication Dosages, and Patient Education.

Requirements:

• Palm OS 3.0
• TealInfo

Epocrates Rx 2.7 is a useful software which allows you to quickly and conveniently find all the clinical information you need for over 3,300 medications - adult and peds dosing including off-label indications, interactions, pricing, packaging, adverse reactions divided into serious and common reactions, mechanism of action and much more.

Used by 1 in 3 US physicians and 1 in 3 medical students, Epocrates Rx is the most easy to use, comprehensive and the #1 free medical download in the iTunes App Store.

The Pill ID allows users to identify pills by color, coat and clarity. Also take advantage of MultiCheck, a unique multiple drug interaction check feature that enables you to check interactions on up to 30 drugs at one time. Instantly access continually updated clinical data and medication safety DocAlert messages from the FDA by using the AutoUpdate feature.

The newest version also includes an improved user interface as well as formularies to help you practice more efficiently and help you save your patients money on their prescriptions. This version is FREE for download on the website. However, to access all of this information PLUS hundreds of alternative medicines, NEW over-the-counter drug modules, hundreds of diseases and weight based dosing calculators, you should purchase Epocrates Essentials -- available on the iPhone

Major Features:

1. Drug Information: Instantly access drug prescribing and safety information for more than 3,300 brand and generic drugs. Search for a drug by name or drug class; then you can review:
   • Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications
   • Black box warnings, contraindications, and cautions
   • Serious and common adverse reactions, and drug interactions organized by clinical category
   • Approximate retail drug pricing for patients paying out-of-pocket
   • Pill pictures within the drug monograph showing you and your patients exactly what each drug looks like
   • Safety and monitoring information, such as pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels
   • Manufacturing information including DEA/FDA status
   • Pharmacology information, including metabolism, excretion, drug class, and mechanism of action
   • Notes section for your personal notes
2. Pill ID: Ever have a patient call or come to you with a pill of unknown origin? With this feature, you can identify a drug based on its physical characteristics such as color, shape and imprint code.
   • Simply select some key characteristics and quickly see a list of drugs that match the criteria, with a convenient visual reference guide
   • Tapping on a drug image enlarges the picture, making it easier for you to see any imprint codes found on the drug and thus confirm the match
3. Drug interactions
   • The powerful InteractionCheck enables you to check for interactions among up to 30 drugs at a time.
   • Potential interactions are organized by category to help you determine the appropriate action.
4. Tables: Additional references and tools to help you every day.
   • MedMath - dozens of useful medical calculators, including Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure
   • Association guidelines and reference tables
5. Formulary information: Epocrates Rx contains up-to-date, detailed formulary information for national and regional healthcare insurance formularies, including all Medicare Part D plans, and provides easy access to therapeutic alternatives.
   • Select and download the insurance formularies you use most often
   • Quickly check to see which drugs are covered
   • Find plan-specific details on:
   • • Copay tiers
     • Prior authorization requirements
     • Quantity limits
     • Step-therapy guidelines
   • Search for preferred therapeutic alternatives
6. Free Updates
   • The Epocrates Medical Information editors continually update the Rx drug database to ensure you have the most current information available, including:
   • • New drugs and interactions
     • New indications
     • Drug recalls
     • Medication safety updates from the FDA, CDC, ISMP, and AHRQ
     • Formulary status changes
   • To receive these updates for free, simply perform a wireless Epocrates update.

Requirements:

• iPhone/iPod device: Apple iPhone/iPod touch with OS 2.0 or greater
• Minimum available memory: 8 MB + 20K per free health plan formulary selected
• Important notes:
• • Requires wireless updates
  • Set to automatically update your clinical content wirelessly upon launching the application (maximum of once per day).

iSecur is a Personal Information Manager which lets you store secrets safely.
iSecur is the successor of Secure It and provides stronger encryption (SHA256 and AES), icons, intelligent templates and more.
Enhancements:
- When doing a find inside iSecur the entire secret is searched.
- Fixed a bug where the Quick Find on the main list would bomb if a secret was added and then immediately was deleted.
- Preferences item added: if you add a new secret or edit an existing secret and you change the category you now have the option to stay in the category youre coming from.
- Preferences item added: if you load a template you have the option to store the secret in the same category as the template.
- The function of the 5 way up/down can now be changed so that up/down on a focused list without any selections is page up/down. Normal GUI guidelines states that 5 way up/down should move between GUI elements much like 5 way left/right does.
- Fixed some 5 way navigator related bugs.
- When you load a template into a secret which already contains some text you can now add to the secret instead of replacing the original text.
- The Password Generator Icon should now come up with the right image all the time.
- You can now set a hint about your password. The hint can be brought up on the "Enter password" dialog.
- Double clicking on the "Select Icon" icon on the edit screen no longer crashes iSecur.
- iSecur installs itself into the "Main" category of your launcher by default (if such a category exists).
- Import from Memo/Export to Memo implemented.
- Text can now be copied from the secret to clipboard in Show mode.
System requirements:
- Any Palm OS Hardware
- Palm OS 3.5
- 60KB RAM

PocketConsole (ARM) 1.3 is a free software designed to provide a console device for Pocket PCs. Consoles manage input and output (I/O) for character-mode applications (applications that do not provide their own graphical user interface).

PocketConsole has built in advanced features from the Windows NT console. Since PocketConsole is full compatible with Microsoft's Windows CE device driver model you can run any character-mode application written for Windows CE Handheld's on your Pocket PC without modification.

On the applications page you can download some character-mode programs which run on PocketConsole. If you are a Pocket PC software developer, then PocketConsole will simplify porting console mode applications from Windows and Unix to the Pocket PC.

Enhancements:

• The PocketConsole menu has been changed to accord with the PocketPC design guidelines. (You will find the Close button under the Tools menu now);
• Add QuickEdit button at the command bar;
• Add In line input mode you can use the stylus to place the cursor;
• Fix: the dwControlKeyState member of the INPUT_RECORD structure delivered a bogus value.

Sepsis EGDT 2 is developed to be a handy program on the base of the 2008 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines. This program includes information about antibiotics, indications/contraindications to activated protein C (Xigris), steps to complete EGDT, adjunct therapies and walks the clinician through EGDT.

Enhancements: May include unspecified updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.