iPhone provides a lot of applications from a lot of different domains: wheatear, radio, video, games, multimedia, movies and you can even find free drug guide application.
The last domain is the one we are going to talk right now presenting you free iPhone drug guide applications.
If you are a person that wants to stay in touch with clinical new and you enjoy reading many medical research articles the next application if for you for free. Epocrates Rx is a free drug guide application for your iPhone and iPod touch. The application has a large variety of commented articles from the following domains: Alzheimer Disease, Diabetes, Infection Management, Epilepsy, Breast Cancer, Atrial Fibrillation, Pain Management and Venous Thromboembolism.
Epocrates Rx gives you immediate access to information for about 3.300 generic drugs and brand, with the possibility to search them by drug class or name.
In the application you will find: common and serious adverse reactions, pediatric and adult dosing for off label instructions and FDA approved; cautions, contraindications and warnings for black box; monitoring and safety information, for example for pregnancy information like lactation safety ratings and risk categories; a lot of pharmacology information (drug class, excretion and metabolism).
If you want to see how a pill looks like you will find the drug monograph and the picture.
If you find yourself in the situation when you don’t know the origin of a certain pill, the application gives you the possibility to identify it by imprint code, shape and color. The way to do this is very simple, first you have to select some main characteristics of the pill and then the application finds you drugs that match the characteristics you have selected. It you saw a drugs that looks like the one you want to identify, you can tap on the image on the pill – this action will enlarge the picture and you will be able to the imprint codes on the pill and to identify it.
Epocrates Rx has a feature called InteractionCheck which can make a list of potential interactions for 30 pills at a time and MedMath that can calculate the right dozes for useful medicine.
The application has detailed formulary information for regional and national healthcare insurance; therefore you can download the insurance formularies you need. You can search for the therapeutic alternatives and fin details on: quantity limits, copay tiers, therapy guidelines and authorization requirements.
The Epocrates Rx database is always updating to ensure that you have newest information available on your iPhone, for example new interaction and new drugs, drug recalls and new indications. The updating process in for free and all you have to do is to perform an application update.
For this application you must have at least 8 MB memory on your iPhone or iPod touch.
The next free drug guide application for your iPhone is CPR Drugs. This application will helps you calculate a lot of different drugs just by entering the patient’s weight. CPR Drugs gives you information and helps you calculate the next drugs: Atropine, Adrenaline, Ketamine, Fentanyl, Etomidate, Adenosine, Lidocaine, Midazolam, Rocuronium, Amiodarane and Succinycholine.
FDADrugsLite it helps you to make the medical decisions quickly and with confidentially. This application has official information for: therapeutic biologicals – 139, over the counter – 545, prescription 13.494 human drugs.
FDADrugsLite allows you to: find drugs by a specific active ingredient, find FDA approved labels. The application is free and you can use it on iPod touch or iPhone.
The application has 3 bars: the drug bar, the label bar and the generic bar. The label bar gives to its users access to a collection of FDA approved package insert. The files include information like: dosage and administrations, contraindications, overdosage, drug interactions, description, warning and precaution and nonclinical toxicology.
The drug bar contains FDA approved drugs and it has also information about the dosage, the form, ingredients and market status for all drugs. The generic bar offers you direct search information for FDA’s Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.
The next free application is for you if you want to know a lot about psychotropic medications in an easy and quick way. Psych Drugs is a free drug guide for your iPhone in which you will find useful and important information about antipsychotics, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers and antidepressants. The application gives you the following information about each medication: brand name, generic name, indications, class, maximum daily dose for children, maximum daily dose for adults, dosage forms and half-life.
This application is perfect for: medical students, therapists, psychology students, psychiatric residents and everyone who wants to know more about psychotropic medications.
You have a search option and a search box in Psych Drugs, therefore you will find very quickly the medication you want and all you have to do if you want to learn about it is to tap on it.
Skyscape RxDrugs: Dosing Compasion is another free drug guide for your iPhone. The guide has thousands of generic drugs and used brand drugs. You can find the medication you want by generic name, by indication, by class or by Canadian or U.S brand name. You also find information about breastfeeding, pregnancy and dosage. The guide is updating to provide you the newest information about many medications, including: cardiovascular, psychiatric and antimicrobial agents.
The application also has: Drug Reference, Clinical Outline resources and Medical Calculator. The information you need comes from trusted resources, for example: AAP Red Book, 5MMC (5 Minute Clinical Consult), Washington Manual, Labs360, HIVGuide and many more. You can trust in the information that this drugs guide is giving you regardless of your profession.
As you can see, you have many free drugs guide applications to help you when you need to find precious information about any type of medication.
