Peds references for moonlighting

[Interpolfanclub]

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Anybody want to recommend some pediatric references they use when working/moonlighting. Obviously the Broselow Luten tape but anything else?

Harriet Lane? Drug dosage guides? etc

Thanks

 

[paiute]

i just bought "in a page pediatrics" by kahan, teitelbaum, and deantonis, pub by wolters kluwer-lippencott williams and wilkins. its a concise review of a lot of ped dx's, sort of like "5 minute consult" its fun to browse through.

 

[J-Rad]

I assume moonlighting in the ED(?)

Tarascon's Pediatric Emergency Medicine Pocketbook has a lot of bang for the bug (and size).

On Palm and WinMo PDAs: Pedi Suite by Medical Wizards is very good and worth the cost (or spend a little more and get ER Suite which has Pedi Suite built in and has some more adult content [though Pedi Suite has quite a bit of the info stand-alone]).

Since the old Palm OS is mostly dead and Winmo is a walking, stinking corpse that just won't die (and has long deserved to):
On iPhone and iPod Touch
-Harriet Lane is available on Skyscape and is pretty good. Not good for urgent/emergent lookup, but good for reasonably quick lookup and is a lot lighter that the book.
-PediStat is a decent (and inexpensive) program for rapid lookup of peds resuscitation drugs/equip based on age, weight or height. Does suffer from the same thing as other weight-based dosing calculators-tends to omit max max reasonable dose. Ex if you input 43kg for weight (the highest it will accept) and llok up seizure drugs doses of Loraz read 2.15-4.3mg and Diazepam as 4.3-8.6mg, I don't thin most would even start out on those lower ends for someone they thought was naive to the drugs. But all-in-all a nice program.
-I've no interest in paying for Pepid. But Pepid Elements is free and a nice toxicology module.

 

[Jeff698]

I know lots of folks don't like the price of PEPID. Fair enough.

As a resident, I had CME money that I used for PEPID and I do the same with my staff CME money.

I've repeatedly found PEPID to be an outstanding product that has very useful information for almost all patients I see in the ED, including peds.

As you may have figured out, I'm a big fan. I also have the free ePocrates and the free MedScape app for my iPhone. If you're looking for just a drug reference, either is pretty good, although I prefer the Medscape one (not surprising since I think they license PEPID's database).

The only real gripe I still have with PEPID is their iPhone interface. It's getting better with each upgrade but still not where it should be yet. Also, the need for a connection to use the drug calculator is irksome. They fixed this for the interaction checker but still need to do the same for the calculators.

Take care,
Jeff

PS, I have no financial or other ties to PEPID. Well, not quite true. I pay money to them every year so I guess they have a financial tie to me.

 

[tkim]

+1 for PEPID. The only program I've paid for, willing to pay for. I'm holding onto my WinMobile Treo because I don't like what I'm hearing about the iPhone version, and iPhone isn't on Verizon. When those two things work out, I'll drop WinMobile and the Treo like a bad habit.