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    • Ectopic Brain, Created by residents and attendings at the Riverside family practice residency associated with Virginia Commonwealth University, this site is designed to help residents locate programs, files, and other resources in order to make the most of their Palm devices.
    • handheldmed.com, a comprehensive source of information for physicians, residents, medical students, and healthcare professionals using handheld computers.
    • pdaMD.com , a cross-platform site dedicated to handheld computing in medicine.
    • Handheld resources compiled by the Oregon Health Sciences University medicine program.
    • Palm Pilot Page, "high yield-must-have-bare bones" links from the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
    • Washington University Medical Palm Initiative
    • Web Sites for Palm PDA Users from UCLA.
    • Burdie's Medical Palm Site, gives advice, links, and memopad items from an internal medicine resident
    • Dr. B's PDA, a family practitioner's page of home-grown Palm OS applications and links.
    • Healthy PalmPilot
    • Malaysian Medical PalmPilot Page, by a Malaysian physician.
    • PocketPsych, resources for mental health professionals using the Palm and various medical applications.
    • RNpalm, Nursing and Medical PDA Software and Hardware
  • SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ITEMS
    • Current Clinical Strategies Series. FREE. The complete set of CCS pocket books in a PalmTM-friendly format.
    • ePocrates qRx. FREE. A huge, wonderful, powerful, popular drug reference program.
    • Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Free 30 day trial. An electronic version of the popular pocket drug reference book.
    • MedCalc. FREE. A medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in medicine.
    • Shots 2.2. FREE. A quick reference to the 2001 Harmonized Immunization Schedule. Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names and Info buttons. More details available on the Shots page.
    • Patient Communications. Differential diagnosis mnemonics pocket book and Palm note file
    • Acid-Base Nomogram. FREE. A representation of the classic nomogram for diagnosing acid-base disturbances.
    • Coronary Angiograms. FREE. Diagram of the coronary vasculature as commonly viewed on coronary angiograms.
    • Hexaxial System for determining electrical vectors on EKG. FREE.
    • Marik's Primer of Differential Diagnosis, Updated 12/17/00. Courtesy of Dr. Paul Marik, this manual can serve as an aid for teaching rounds and morning report and for evaluating the differential diagnoses of clinical findings.
    • ABG Pro. FREE. This program helps interpret blood gases. You plug in the data, it tells you whether you have a metabolic or respiratory acidosis or alkalosis, calculate expected PCO2 and expected HCO3, tell you if there is a concominant acid-base disorder, calculate Anion Gap and Delta-Delta, etc..
    • Stat ICD-9 Coder $29. All 15,000 ICD-9 codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.
    • Stat CPT Coder $50. All CPT codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.


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