Pediatric PDA Blog

This 500+ drug entries handbook has been formatted for the Windows Mobile and Palm by Medical Wizards.

It includes most of the commonly used pediatric medications in US and Canadian brand names and generics.

Have a look here;

The book also includes some useful appendices such as immunizations schedules, pregnancy categories, drug classes and others and it can also be purchased in paper from Amazon.com.

It seems that it is not so frequently updated as the original handbook is still in the first edition and the immunizations schedule included is that of 2004!

It has no drug interaction analyzer but drug interactions information is mentioned as a specific field with each drug entry.

Despite the adequate cross linking within the app, some navigation problems are noted such as the inappropriate home button when we are in the appendices and also some slowness noted when the 8 MB title is installed on the memory card. Another example of the inadequately designed software is that we cannot read the complete title of one of the appendices, it reads as follows; Oral dosage forms that should N.. and that is true even when we navigate to the appendix home page.

Unfortunately Medical Wizards have not produced iPhone versions of their titles and they seem to ignore it as there is no mention of developing such versions at all.

Some serious work needed to improve this freshly released PDA title.

This 500+ drug entries handbook has been formatted for the Windows Mobile and Palm by Medical Wizards.

It includes most of the commonly used pediatric medications in US and Canadian brand names and generics.

Have a look here;

The book also includes some useful appendices such as immunizations schedules, pregnancy categories, drug classes and others and it can also be purchased in paper from Amazon.com.

It seems that it is not so frequently updated as the original handbook is still in the first edition and the immunizations schedule included is that of 2004!

It has no drug interaction analyzer but drug interactions information is mentioned as a specific field with each drug entry.

Despite the adequate cross linking within the app, some navigation problems are noted such as the inappropriate home button when we are in the appendices and also some slowness noted when the 8 MB title is installed on the memory card. Another example of the inadequately designed software is that we cannot read the complete title of one of the appendices, it reads as follows; Oral dosage forms that should N.. and that is true even when we navigate to the appendix home page.

Unfortunately Medical Wizards have not produced iPhone versions of their titles and they seem to ignore it as there is no mention of developing such versions at all.

Some serious work needed to improve this freshly released PDA title.