Table 1 Software applications and examples of the databases provided on Palm handheld computers
Application | Database/information |
|---|---|
Addressbook* | Hospital and staff telephone numbers |
| Â | Emergency numbers |
Datebook* | Call schedules |
| Â | Schedules for teaching and rounds |
Memopad* | Patient database |
To Do list* | Â |
Calculator* | Â |
J-file | Acid-base equations |
| Â | Dialysis solutions |
| Â | Vasopressor protocols |
| Â | Electrolyte replacement |
| Â | Antiarrhythmic drugs |
| Â | Normal laboratory values |
| Â | Drug dosing in renal failure |
| Â | Drugs in pregnancy |
AvantGo | ICU orientation manual |
| Â | Antimicrobial therapy |
| Â | Research study summaries |
| Â | Ventilator weaning protocol |
| Â | Organ-donation criteria |
| Â | Residents' objectives |
Cbas Pad | Calculators of |
|  |    Creatinine clearance |
|  |    Ideal body weight |
|  |    Respiratory parameters |
|  |    Fractional excretion sodium |
|  |    Harris-Benedict equation |
|  |    Intravenous drug rate |
PalmPrint | Printout of daily note |