| Introduction This Critical Care PEDIA gives information about Drug class, Indication, Route of administration, Interaction and Contraindications of drugs used in ICU and general practice. Drugs have been categorized based on their generic name. If a drug name starts with letter A, then it will come under List A and so on. This is an Auto-run CD. Once you insert the CD in CD Rom drive the application will start automatically within seconds. If this doesn’t start then explore the CD and double click on default.html file (figure below). |
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| Search You can click and find out the drugs under A to Z. But, if you want to search for a particular drug, enter the name of the drug or initial letters in the textbox and click on search button. |
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| If the Drug is available in the list, then it will navigate to that particular Drug Home Page. | ||
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| If the Drug is not available or you mis-spelled it while typing, an alert message will be displayed. | ||
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| How
to browse through the drug list Click on the letter A to view the detailed list of drugs starting with letter A. The same way you can view the drugs starting with B, C, D, etc. |
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| Scores To use Decision-making Medical score please click on scores link as shown in picture. |
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| Critical
Care PEDIA contains the following scores: -
Apache III Score - Mortality rate for ARF in ICU patients continues to be high. The APACHE III score, determined at the time of initiation of dialysis for patients with ARF, is a statistically significant predictor of patient survival. Apgar
Score - A score is given for each sign at one minute and five
minutes after the birth. If there are problems with the baby an
additional score is given at 10 minutes. A score of 7-10 is considered
normal, while 4-7 might require some resuscitative measures, and
a baby with apgars of 3 and below requires immediate resuscitation. Glasgow Coma Scale - The Glasgow Coma Scale is the most widely used scoring system used in quantifying level of consciousness following traumatic brain injury. It is used primarily because it is simple, has a relatively high degree of inter observer reliability and because it correlates well with outcome following severe brain injury. PRISM
II - Pediatric Risk of Mortality score estimates risk of Mortality
for pediatric patients. |
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| Hope
you will find this Tool useful in your Clinical practice. Pfizer and
Indegene wish you a useful and informative experience with Critical
Care PEDIA. For any technical support please contact techsupport@indegene.com |
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| Source:- Information used in this tool has been compiled from various authentic sources like PDR, Clinical Pharmacology and Mosby’s Drug Reference. | ||
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| Disclaimer Medicine is an ever-changing science. As new research and clinical experience broaden our knowledge, changes in treatment and drug therapy are required. Developers of this work have checked with sources believed to be reliable in their efforts to provide information that is complete and generally in accord with the standards accepted at the time of development. However, in view of the possibility of human error or changes in medical sciences, neither developers, nor any other party who has been involved in the preparation or development of this work warrants that the information contained herein is in every respect accurate or complete. Users are encouraged to confirm the information contained herein with other sources. For example and in particular, users are advised to refer to latest locally approved prescribing information of each drug they plan to administer to be certain that the information contained in this CD is accurate and that changes have not been made in the recommended dose or in the contraindications for administration. Any liability related to copyright of the content will be Indegene’s and Pfizer will not have any responsibility for the same |
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