Pediatric Anesthesia

The Pediatric Anesthesia Calculator is an application for anesthesiologists, CRNAs and emergency service personnel who are facing pediatric patients in the OR, emergency room or on the street.

With this tool you will know all important physiological values for the particular age and weight of your patient as well as mask and tube sizes. All relevant drugs for intravenous anesthesia available in the United States are included with dosing information for your special patient.

When you tap on the blue drug name, a window opens with vial contents, neccessary solutions, resulting concentrations, weight and age - based dosing information and finally the dose in [mg] und [ml] for the patient data you entered on the start screen.
All the information you need within 10 seconds at the point of care.
Ideally suited to crosscheck your own calculations. Valuable in the emergency situation, in routine duty as well as at the unexpected surgery at 3 a.m. on call.

All information is based on current literature and guidelines. Please see the sources at the bottom of the application website.

Additionally I included the reviewed and validated POVOC - Score with the guidelines for the prevention of postoperative vomiting in children by the german Council on Pediatric Anesthesia of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and the guidelines on the Prevention of Postoperative Vomiting in Children by the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain . There is no equivalent guideline for the United States.

As nobody can solely rely on the invisible calculations of a software, all the data the Pediatric Anesthesia Calculator uses is openly display. On http://8apps.org you will find every solution, the number of decimal places every value is rounded to and all the formulas resulting in the dosage guidelines, so that you can make the informed decision to benefit from this app.

Normal values

Heart Rate
Blood Pressure
Respiratory Rate
Fluid Requirements
Tidal Volume
Minute Volume
O2-Consumption
CO2-Production
Cardiac Output
Face Masks
Laryngeal Masks
Endotracheal Tubes

Hypnotics

Thiopental
Propofol
Ketamine
Midazolam

Analgesics

Alfentanil
Sufentanil
Fentanyl
Remifentanil

Relaxants

Succinylcholine
Rocuronium
Cisatracurium
Atracurium
Pancuronium

Antagonists

Pyridostigmine
Naloxone
Flumazenil
Neostigmine
Physostigmine

POV

Dexamethasone
Granisetron
Ondansetron
Propofol

Emergency

Atropine
Epinephrine
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Dobutamine

The Pediatric Anesthesia Calculator has been created with extraordinary diligence. Still I can not rule out potential errors. Therefore you as the user, assume full responsibility for the appropriate use of the information provided by this software and agree to hold me, the author, harmless from any and all claims or actions arising from your use of the software. This application is provided “as is”, with all faults and without warranty of any kind.
The data provided is no substitute for individual patient assessment based upon your examination of each patient and consideration of laboratory data and other factors unique to the patient.
Please use it judiciously and let me know if you encounter any error. Thank you.

Changelog

1.1.4
2011-08-23

++ Face Masks
* Rendell-Baker
* King Systems
++ Laryngeal Masks
* LMA Sizes
* Cuff volumes
* max. ETT size for insertian via LMA
* usable bronchoscope
++ Endotracheal Tubes
* Blades
* uncuffed sizes
* cuffed sizes
* insertion depths

1.1.3
2011-08-11

Initial enUS Version for Android