MedCalc Pro (medical calculator) app review: easy access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales, and classifications

Introduction

What we have here is a powerful resource for any medical student, nurse, or doctor, which provides an incredibly comprehensive collection of medical formulas, scores, scales, and classifications that you can easily access directly from your iPhone and iPad.

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I’m going to have to start off by saying that pretty much all of the content within this app is way over my head, but I can definitely vouch for the smooth-running and general efficacy of this app when it comes to delivering content promptly and concisely.

Access a Vast Collection of Medical Formulas

As with many apps of this kind, MedCalc Pro (medical calculator) is largely beyond this humble writer’s understanding, so the easiest way for me to sum up what you’ll find is to provide some examples of the formulas included, which are as such:

• ABG analyzer
• Anesthesiology (ASA, Bromage, Charlson, Cormack, Dermatome, Goldman)
• Cardiology (CHADS, GRACE, EuroSCORE, Framingham, Killip, QT-c, TIMI)
• Complicated scores (CAM-ICU, APACHE, SAPS, Euroscore)
• Electrolytes (Corrected Ca, Corrected Na, FENa, Osmolal gap)
• EBM (NNT, Odds, Sample size, Two-way table)
• ICU (APACHE, CAM-ICU, SAPS)
• Infusion management tool
• Neurology (AMTS, Aphasia, Canadian rules, NIHSS, WFNS)
• Obstetrics (APGAR, Bishop, Malinas, Wheel)
• Pediatrics (Age, Height, WETFAG)
• Respiratory (BODE, Epworth, GOLD, SMART-COP, Spirometry, Thoracoscore)
• Renal (Cockroft, KDIGO, MDRD, RIFLE)

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There are, in fact, more than 300 formulas, scores, scales, and classifications to explore within the app, and you can very easily share your results in a variety of ways, including email and copying directly to your clipboard to paste into other apps.

 

Export and Share Your Records With Ease

You can also print your results from directly within the app by using AirPrint and export a history of your results to your desktop computer in .CSV file format. This makes it very easy for you to export readings to the files of your specific patients if necessary.

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In addition to this, you can add your most frequently used equations to your Favorites list for quick and easy future reference , and detailed information and bibliographic references are included for each formula so that you know exactly what has gone into producing them.

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Contains a huge selection of more than 300 medical formulas, scores, scales, and classifications
• Share your results with others online via email, or by copying directly to your clipboard
• Easily print your results from within the app thanks to AirPrint support
• Export your result history to your computer desktop in .CSV file format
• Add your most frequently used equations to your Favorites list for quick and easy future reference  
• Detailed information and bibliographic references for each formula are included
• Metric and Imperial systems are fully supported

Cons                        

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

 

Final Words

There appears to be a whopping amount of content within MedCalc Pro (medical calculator) and the developers have certainly done a great of offering what seems to be a pretty exhaustive collection of formulas and so on, so I would definitely recommend considering this app.