Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Top Medical Applications

Here are the top applications for medical professionals and students. They are arranged randomly and not in any order.
01. Medicine MCQs for Med Students

Download from play store 
Description
An essential revision aid for your medical exams, containing over 1450 multiple choice questions right at your fingertips. Revise with tips, tricks and explanations in Practice Mode or test yourself against the clock in Exam Mode.

Features:

Breakdown of results so you can always see where to improve
Check how your medical knowledge ranks against your friends and worldwide with Google Play Games
Star questions for quick review
Unlock achievements
Check Reference values for blood tests
Beautiful modern design that's optimised for phones & tablets
New questions & categories always being added

Currently 100 free questions with 10 in each category. New FREE questions are always being added. More questions are available at a rate of £0.65 (~$0.98) per 100 questions.° Questions are in single best answer (SBA) format.

Current categories available are*:

- Basic Anatomy
- Biochemistry
- Cell biology
- Clinical Neurology
- Immunobiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Lower Limb
- Neuroscience
- Surface Anatomy
- Thoracic Anatomy
- Upper Limb


02.Medscape



Download From Google Play Store


Medscape is the leading medical resource most used by physicians, medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals for clinical information.

Used by over 2 million registered users.

APP FEATURES:




MEDICAL NEWS FROM MEDSCAPE NEWS

- Medical news and critical alerts available in 34 specialty areas (updated daily). Select the specialties you want to follow. 
- Search our entire Medscape News and MEDLINE databases right in app. 
- Ability to save and email articles, share articles on Facebook, and read offline. No Internet connection required.
CLINICAL REFERENCE FROM MEDSCAPE REFERENCE
Drugs:
- Prescribing & safety information for 8,000+ brand & generic drugs, OTC drugs, and herbals & supplements 
- Drug interaction checker (input up to 30 drugs, herbals and/or supplements at once) 
- Save commonly searched drugs to a personalized ‘saved’ list for easy access 
- Special features include pill images, detailed drug pricing, pregnancy & lactation guidelines, and more

03.Epocrates





Download From Google Play Store


More than 1 million active members, including 50% of U.S. physicians, rely on Epocrates to enable better patient care by delivering the right information, right when it's needed.

Healthcare professionals worldwide use Epocrates routinely to:
-Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, and OTC drugs
-Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions among up to 30 drugs at a time
-Select national and regional healthcare insurance formularies for drug coverage information
-Identify pills by imprint code and physical characteristics
-Perform dozens of calculations, such as BMI and GFR
-Access timely medical news and research information
Disease information, alternative medications, lab guides and more clinical tools and content are available by upgrading to an Epocrates Essentials subscription.


04.Skyscape





Download From Google Play Store


The Skyscape Medical Resources app is used by more than 2.5 million healthcare professionals (HCPs) to access the medical resources they know and trust at the point of care. This valuable decision-support tool helps physicians, nurses, students and other HCPs find the right answers, right away.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE APP
• The free Skyscape app comes loaded with a valuable package of medical resources, including drug information, medical calculators and clinical information on over 850 topics.
• You can purchase any of more than 600 premium resources in 35 medical specialties and access all of them from within this one convenient app. 
• Robust features include SmartLink™, Skyscape’s proprietary cross-reference functionality; medical calculators; algorithms; interactive images; flowcharts; and frequent content updates.
INCLUDED FOR FREE
• RxDrugs: Comprehensive information on thousands of brands and generics, with interactions (including multi-drug analyzer tool), pill images and over 400 integrated dosing calculators. This resource also includes formulary information covering 5,000 health plans in all 50 US states.
• Archimedes: Medical calculator with more than 200 interactive tools, organized by specialty.
• Outlines in Clinical Medicine: Evidence-based clinical information on hundreds of diseases and symptom-related topics, presented in convenient outline format.
• MedAlert™: In-context and specialty-focused journal summaries, trial results, breaking clinical news, drug alerts and other information, fully integrated with the app’s global search and SmartLink.


05.Quick LabRef





Download From Google Play Store

Quick LabRef for Android (Quick Clinical Laboratory Values Reference) provides quick look at the up-to-date information on the most commonly used clinical laboratory values and other useful relevant information such as lab data in Microbiology, Physiology / Pathophysiology, Toxicology and etc. Normal values reference are provided in both Conventional Units (CU) and, whenever available, in units of the “Sistème International” (SI).



06.Calculate by QxMD





Download From Google Play Store


Essential tools in General Practice, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery, Obstetrics, Nephrology, Hematology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Respirology, and more.
"We recommend medical users try the free Calculate by QxMD first..."
-from iMedicalApps review "The best free Medical Calculator apps for the iPhone"
'Calculate' is focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.
Helping you make decisions, not just calculate numbers...
Features
• Developed by a collaboration of clinician experts from diverse backgrounds
• Converts recent research publications into practical handheld tools - knowledge translation at its best
• Automatically adapts to your self-described clinical practice
• Unique ‘Question Flow’ technology gets you answers, fast
• Detailed references with Pubmed integration
• Comprehensive and insightful results
• Elegant design and intuitive interface
• SI and Conventional units
More than 150 Unique calculators and Decision Support tools
While too extensive to list them all, here is a small sampling of included content:
Reduce and predict perioperative complications
• WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
• Predictive models for cardiac surgery and coronary angiography
Guide treatment
• Determine cardiovascular risk and guide lipid treatment using the Framingham and Reynolds Risk Scores
• Use the CHADS2 score to guide treatment in atrial fibrillation
• Better understand the risk of bleeding from anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation
• ACS using the TIMI risk score
• Burns with rule of 9s and Parkland formula
• Hypernatremia (calculate water deficit)
Determine Prognosis
• Heart failure
• Lymphoma
• Myelodysplastic Syndrome
• Myeloma
• Glomerulonephritis
• Hemodialysis
• COPD
• TIA
• Pancreatitis
Dose
• Chemotherapy based on Body Surface Area
• Carboplatin based on AUC
• tPA in acute stroke
• Phenytoin in renal failure and hypoalbuminemia
Calculate
• Ideal body weight, BMI and BSA
• Due date and gestational age
• Extensive formula used in echocardiogropathy and invasive hemodynamic monitoring
• Kt/V in dialysis patients
• eGFR with CKD-Epi, Cockcroft-Gault, and MDRD
• A-a gradient
Classify
• Angina (CCS)
• Congestive heart failure (NYHA)
Manage
• Head, neck, ankle and knee injuries
• DVT and PE
• Pulmonary nodules
Stage
• Lung cancer
• Renal cell carcinoma
Understand
• TTKG (transtubular potassium gradient) in hypokalemia and hyperkalemia
• Dermatomes
Diagnose
• Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
• Infective Endocarditis
• ARDS
• Autoimmune Hepatitis



07.Speed Anatomy Quiz Free



Download From Google Play Store


How fast can you point to your liver, gall bladder or incisor? Do you know the difference between the auricle and the utricle? Speed Anatomy is an addictive game that tests your speed and challenges your knowledge of human anatomy! It is the most fun anatomy quiz out there. Don't use boring flashcards when you could use Speed Anatomy!

-Contains close to 300 labeled parts from all the main regions of the body.

-Earn points for precision and speed.
-A magnifying glass appears when holding your finger on an image allowing you to achieve more precision and higher scores.
This games is fun for everyone plus it makes life easy for those tackling anatomy for high school, university or even medical school. Practice mode allows you to learn specific regions without doing all the previous levels.
Contains 28 levels including an overview of bones, muscles, arteries, veins, respiratory system and digestive system also more detailed levels covering bones, lungs, pharynx, larynx, nasal cavity,oral cavity, dentition, liver, pancreas, brain, auditory system and visual system.
Also try Speed Bones MD, Speed Muscles MD and Speed Angiology MD for more in depth levels of bones, muscles and the circulatory system in the best anatomy quiz format!

08.Prognosis : Your Diagnosis






Download From Google Play Store


- Top medical app with over 1,500,000 downloads ! 

- Featured in Discover Magazine as 'Dr House for Doctors' 
- Winner of the prize for the Best Health App at the World Summit Awards for Mobile Apps, 2012 
- Selected as "One of the five best apps for Doctors" by the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE)
Want to get the gist of a clinical case study in 2-3 minutes? Try Prognosis : Your Diagnosis - The first and only free Android game that lets you investigate, deduce and diagnose complex clinical cases within minutes with our fun, interactive cartoon-style narrative.
Prognosis is specially designed for Doctors, Medical students and Nurses and each case helps to learn or recall two or three key clinical points that can be applied in your practice.
The cases also provide excellent preparation for the USMLE Step 2 CS, COMLEX, NCLEX, CCRN and MCAT exams, as well as other board examinations and professional licensure tests.
You can use it while waiting for coffee or on the bus, quickly complete a case, learn something new and make the maximum use of your time.
The content is modeled on real life patients, has been checked by a panel of expert medical specialists and is based on current management guidelines.
A new case is added each week. The app will let you know as new cases are added

09.Visual Anatomy Free





Download From Google Play Store


OVERVIEW: 

Visual Anatomy Free is an interactive reference, and education tool. Now it include a rotational organ 3D overview model!! It contains 58 high-resolution images and more than 300 feature points which can be interactively selected. Each feature has its own label and short description. The app also has search function which can be used as searching the labels of all feature points. 8 overview images from Gray's anatomy. Full version has all 1247 images.
In additional, a quiz with 23 multi-choice questions also is included.
USES: 
This app’s primary use is as a learning tool but can also be used for any professional who needs the occasional reminder. Additionally, this app is ideal for physicians, educators or professionals, allowing them to visually show detailed areas to their patients or students - helping to educate or explain conditions, ailments and injuries.

FEATURES: 

•Support English and French (Français) languages.
•muscle description (ORIGIN, INSERTION, NERVE, ACTIONS).
•Tap and Zoom - Pinch zoom into and identify any region, bone or other feature by tapping on the screen. 
•Quiz mode - test yourself with an option to switch off the label of the feature point. 
•Quick Navigation - jump to a different system or organ by selecting the thumbnail. 
•Multi-choice quiz. 
•High-resolution images.
•Free periodic updates.
CONTENTS:
Organ 3D, Muscular System (anterior, posterior and lateral views), Skeletal System (anterior, posterior and lateral views), Circulation System,Body Region,Heart, Respiratory System, Digestive System, Urinary System, Nervous System, Female and male Reproductive Systems, Ear Structure, Nasal Cavity, Eye.
HOW TO USE:
The user is presented with a high-quality anatomy images. The user can zoom in to any area by tapping on the zoom in button and using the single finger panning function. The feature point (cross) can be selected by tapping on it. Detail button allows you to switch on/off the short description. For muscle section, detail button only show the description. Quiz mode button allows you to switch on/off the label and short description.



10.PubMed Mobile




Download From Google Play Store

Search PubMed database with over 21 million citations for biomedical articles and life science journals

Features
Keyword search with options
Save search query
Save citations
Email citations
View abstract
link to full article if available
Post a comment for an article to public
Write a note to yourself
View public comments for an article
search by PubMed ID, just enter the id in the search box
Pro version has more feature. Please give a try




11.Ob (Pregnancy) Wheel


Download From Google Play Store

Calculate dates of pregnancy:
-Last menstrual period (LMP)
-Estimated date of conception
-Weeks gestational age (WGA)
-WGA obtained by ultrasound
-Estimated due date (EDC)
-Adjust length of cycle and luteal phase
-Store multiple patients for easy retrieval

Top 20 - TV Medical Shows. Must watch



20. Northern Exposure (1990-1995) When “Northern Exposure” showed up on the barren landscape that was CBS‘ prime-time schedule in 1991, it got a chorus of critical raves. The cleverly crafted series followed the ups and downs of New York doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a fish out of water, stuck practicing medicine in remotest Alaska.

19. Doctor Finlay (1993-1996) Starring David Rintoul and Annette Crosbie, this series was a follow-up to the BBC’s successful “Dr. Finlay’s Casebook,” from the 1960s, based on characters created by physician-turned-novelist A.J. Cronin. Set in a small Scottish town just after World War II, the series was a big hit on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre.”

18. Doogie Howser, MD (1989-1993) Neil Patrick Harris starred as a 16-year-old doctor with a genius intellect. The show aired on ABC. The first two seasons were successful and were in the top 30 shows in the ratings.


17. Doctor in the House (1969-1970) We include this zany British comedy because the first episode “Why Do You Want to be a Doctor,” was written by future Monty Python stars Graham Chapman and John Cleese. The show was seen in the United States in 1971.

16. Bramwell (1995) This unique period drama starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, a headstrong doctor in Victorian London, built a strong following when it aired on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre.”

15. Diagnosis: Murder (1993-2001) A charming and beguiling family show starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a doctor who also solves murders with a down-home manner. Mr. Van Dyke’s son, Barry, played Detective Steve Sloan. Special guests included Shelley Long, Reba McEntire and Regis Philbin.

14. Doc Martin (2004-present) Martin Clunes plays Martin Ellingham, a doctor who hates the sight of blood in this hilarious British drama series, which is currently seen on PBS. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall.

13. Scrubs (2001-2010) This medical sitcom, with Zach Braff as the central character, never became a network smash on NBC, but did develop a core following in the upscale demographics. The show later moved to ABC.

12. China Beach (1988-1991) Dana Delany played the tough Army nurse in this show, which was set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. Ms. Delany, who radiated passion and grit, garnered two Emmy Awards for her role.

11. Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986) Trapper John was one of the lead characters in the early “M*A*S*H” episodes, but in this show he is the chief surgeon in a San Francisco hospital, nearly 30 years after the Korean War. This may be the first spinoff in TV history that brings nothing from the parent show except the name of a former character, Dr. “Trapper” John McIntyre, played by Pernell Roberts.

10. Chicago Hope (1994-2000) Mandy Patinkin played the brilliant and overzealous surgeon on the CBS show, which also starred Christine Lahti. Mr. Patinkin won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his role.

9. Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present) This ABC drama about young doctors at a Seattle hospital with very active social lives has won numerous awards and is a huge commercial success. It’s most noted star is Patrick Dempsey, who plays neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd.

8. General Hospital (1963-present) The ABC show is the longest-running American soap opera currently in production. The 1981 fairy-tale wedding between Luke (played by Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) was watched by 30 million viewers and landed the couple on the cover of Newsweek magazine. In the episode, Elizabeth Taylor made a cameo as the malicious Helena Cassadine. Demi Moore started here career on the show.

7. Dr. Kildare (1961-1966) Richard Chamberlain became an instant star and heartthrob in the early 1960s in the wildly popular NBC television series “Dr. Kildare.” His bedside manner and sensitive smile seemed to cure all ills. Mr. Chamberlain next stunned Hollywood by going off to England and emerging anew as a classical actor.

6. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-1976) This ABC series, starring Robert Young and James Brolin, was the top-rated weekly American television program in 1970-71. Both stars won Emmy Awards.

5. M*A*S*H (1972-1983) Starring Alan Alda, the show followed the exploits of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The show’s finale was the most-watched television episode in U.S. television history at the time, with a record-breaking 125 million viewers. In 2002, the show was ranked No. 25 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

4. St. Elsewhere (1982-1988) It was the show where Denzel Washington got his big break as Dr. Phillip Chandler, a character he played during the show’s entire six-year run from 1982 to 1988. The NBC show, set at a Boston teaching hospital, also starred Mark Harmon, Howie Mandel and Ed Begley Jr. The series never won huge ratings, but had a loyal following.

3. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998) This hugely popular CBS family-favorite starred the willowy Jane Seymour as a 19th-century frontier doctor. Notable guests stars were Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Jane Wyman and Trisha Yearwood.

2. House (2004-2012) Hugh Laurie stars in the title role as the cantankerous but brilliant Dr. Gregory House with a questionable bedside manner. Mr. Laurie, who was raised in Oxford, England, and educated at Eton and Cambridge, was long known for his wry witty humor in Britain before he took on an excellent American accent in “House.”




1. ER (1994-2009) The largest audience “ER” ever attracted was 47.8 million viewers when it aired after the series finale of “Seinfeld” in 1998. The most famous cast member was George Clooney. “ER” won 10 Emmys, including one for outstanding drama series; three Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild of America awards; and one Golden Globe. NBC at one point was paying out a record $13 million per episode to keep the show.

If we have missed any please add in the comments

Sources: The Sunday Mail, The Washington Times, Associated Press, phillymag.com and Wikipedia
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