SE Dr. Ronald Herman, PhD, Director – Iowa Drug Information Network and Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa has designed a well thought out user friendly PDA tools to calculate CrCl and pharmacokinetic (pk) dosing. Essential is the initial input of weight, age, height, SrCr, sex, hydration status and race. From there one can choose dosing information, and prospective or retrospective pk calculations. Medications within the pk program include Amikacin, Gentimycin, Tobramycin, and Vancomycin. One of the best features about these tools is that one can quickly and accurately calculate the CrCl-GFR estimations and the pk information for a patient while staffing clinical rounds. Another key feature is that this software is available as a freeware program.
This program will be extremely useful in the future thanks to Dr. Herman. –End- SE
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TL: I have downloaded and used the PK calculator that you are referring to. I find it very useful. It is a quick and easy way to calculate a number of things. Lately, I have mostly used it to calculate BMIs when preparing patient cases for classes. I suspect the medication calculators will be very useful in the future as well.
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