Description

The surgery pocketcard app is the newest collection of essential pocket tools for today's surgeon. It is illustrated and interactive.

Including:

§ Abdominal evaluation: history and physical examination | differential diagnosis of pain, mass, bowel obstruction and gastrointestinal bleeding | Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification | Ranson’s criteria | Hinchey classification

§ Thyroid evaluation: history and physical examination | differential diagnosis of neck mass

§ Breast evaluation: history and physical examination | differential diagnosis of breast mass

§ Hernia evaluation: history and physical examination | Nyhus classification | differential diagnosis of groin hernia

§ Interactive physiologic formulas: hemodynamic | respiratory | endocrine and metabolic

§ Fluids, electrolytes, acid-base and nutrition: estimation of maintenance fluids | parkland formula for the rehydration in burn patients | acid-base disorders | flowchart for arterial blood gas interpretation | differential diagnosis of electrolyte disturbances

§ Critical care: interactive Glasgow Coma Scale | Classification of hemorrhagic shock | hemodynamic response to shock | equivalent glucocorticoid dosing

§ Pressure ulcers and wounds: pressure ulcer staging | wound classification and infection risk

§ Local anesthetic agents: dosing | duration | comments

§ Surgical notes: general surgery patient follow-up checklist | preoperative note | operative note | postoperative note

§ Surgical sutures: illustrated suture techniques

What's New in Version 2.0

- optimized for iPhone 5 and iOS 6
- added new features and functionality
- Full text search
- iPad splitscreen: iPad-optimized layout with split screen view
- other small bug fixes