DVM Calc app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Zenware, Inc.
First release : 24 Feb 2011
App size: 3.73 Mb
DVM Calc is the most comprehensive small animal veterinary calculator available for veterinarians, veterinary medical students, and veterinary technicians. Developed by a group of veterinary specialists and emergency veterinarians, this application contains 26 practical calculators, 15 specific constant rate infusion calculators, and 10 toxicity calculators. Each individual calculator includes an information sheet to explain the calculations. A useful “Notes” page is also included, which allows the user to enter, save and edit notes on multiple patients (up to 300 words/patient). A specific section is included for patient name, signalment and admit date. A basic numerical calculator is also included within the application to allow the user to carry out additional calculations, when necessary, without closing the application to open a separate calculator.
DVM Calc includes:
• Calculators
• A-a Gradient
• Anesthetic Preparation
• Anion Gap
• Bicarbonate Deficit
• Blood Transfusion Dose
• Body Surface Area
• Corrected Sodium
• Dehydration Deficit
• Drip Rate Calculator
• Enteral Feeding Calculator
• Fractional Excretion of Sodium
• Free Water Deficit
• Gestation “Wheel”
• Maintenance Fluid Rate
• Metabolic Weight
• Osmolality, Effective Osmolality and Osmolar Gap
• Percent Solution Conversion/Calculator
• Plasma Transfusion Dose/Albumin Deficit
• Potassium Supplementation Calculator
• Shock Fluid Doses – Isotonic, Synthetic Colloids, and Hypertonic Saline
• Surgical Blood Loss Calculator
• Temperature Conversion
• Weight Conversions – kg/g/lb/oz
Constant Rate Infusions – Full concentration or diluted within IV fluids
Specific CRI Drugs (pre-set dosage recommendations) include:
• Diazepam
• Diltiazem
• Dobutamine
• Dopamine
• Fentanyl – dilute
• Fentanyl – full concentration
• Insulin
• Isoproterenol
• Ketamine
• Lidocaine
• Metoclopramide
• Morphine
• Morphine/Lidocaine/Ketamine (MLK)
• Procainamide
• Propofol
• Emergency Drug Calculator (CPR) – dog or cat specific and includes:
Epinephrine (high and low dose)
Atropine
Lidocaine
Sodium Bicarbonate
Calcium Gluconate
Magnesium Sulfate
Vasopressin
Naloxone
Flumazenil
Dextrose
Defibrillation (internal and external)
Crystalloid Fluid Rates – shock dose and maintenance
Hetastarch Rates – shock dose and maintenance
Toxicity Calculators – include:
• Acetaminophen
• Amphetamines
• Chocolate/Methylxanthines
• Cyanide
• Ethylene Glycol
• Metaldehyde
• Rodenticides
• Strychnine
• Xylitol
• Notes – Notes may be entered, saved and edited for each specific patient. Each individual patient note may have up to 300 words.
• Basic Numerical Calculator – The basic numerical calculator will perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Exponents, square roots and other higher math calculations are not supported.
This application is intended for clinical use by veterinarians, veterinary students, and veterinary technicians. The included calculations are to be used as a resource with the understanding that the user’s medical knowledge and clinical judgment may supersede the output information. Like any tool, it is never a substitute for clinical judgment. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of DVM Calc’s content, but all results must be confirmed before use. By purchasing this application the user releases the designers/developers/sellers from liability.
Designer: John C. Chandler, DVM, MS, DACVS
Programmer: Cody Brown Trumpetfish Productions
Latest reviews of DVM Calc app for iPhone and iPad
Will not run with IOS 5.1.1 Crashes 100% of the time on start-up.
Great app. Clinical must have!
This app has a ton of great components. Ive been using it daily for several weeks now - it would be worth the price for the CRI calculator alone. John and his team implemented CRIs just right. There are a lot of CRI formulae out there, but the ones you find in textbooks are often too limiting as youre restricted to, for example, making an infusion into a whole bag of crystalloids meant to be delivered at maintenance. The calculator in this app lets you work out the CRIs in any, completely custom way youd like. This, in my opinion, is absolutely essential in the critical patient which may be on several different infusions. Add in the toxicity section, nutrition, conversions, potassium calculator, and it adds up to a winner. Its awesome to have something this powerful right on the iPhone in your pocket rather than having to dig through a stack of books for the info you need.
The app is great for any DVM or vet tech but I am worried that it can fall in the wrong hands. I think it should be for clinical use only and that it should not be sold to those outside of the medical field. The reason being is anyone can use it to figure out a lethal dose of a common house hold product to poison a neighbor barking dog. Just for one example. Other wise I love the app.
The calc I use the most is the Fent CRI calculator. It has been a godsend! Just wish there was a way to calculate backwards to know if you are putting a certain amount into a liter bag u would be able to know how many ug/kg/hr that would be. Or even how to adjust the fluid rate to change the dose from say 2ug/kg/hr to 3ug/kg/hr. Thanks so much. Susan CVT