My Top Medical App list (Android)

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Working in Malaysia government hospital as a junior doctor, the following is my 4 frequently use Medical App list:

1) My Blue Book. This app is serve as a useful quick reference for all the drug available in our Malaysia government hospital. I use this app almost everyday. I use it to check drug dosing; name of the drug brand name use in our government hospital; check if my specialist is require to sign for the drug prescription. The down side of this app is not all information is accurate.

2) Medscape. I use this app to check drug dosing, especially if I want to know the pharmacokinetics, duration and half life of the drug. I also use this to check pregnancy and lactation category of a particular drug. Another useful thing of this app is to check the Peak Expiratory Flow prediction when managing asthma patient.

3) Rapid GFR. It's a quick way to estimate the GFR and CKD status of my patient. This app use Cockcroft Gault Formular and MDRD formula. The only word of caution as this app assume there is no black race in Malaysia. And we did see a number of African patient in our hospital.

4) Renal dose. This is another useful app if we want to know the renal dose of each drug. It is simple and straight forward.

I use the following app, but not as frequently.

1) Cardiac Risk Calculator. I use this mainly for educating my patient on their risk status on developing cardiovascular disease. I like the fact that this app uses the Framingham equation.

2) NHS Antibiotic guidelines South of England.

3) SIGN guidelines. SIGN stands for Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

4) Warfarin HTK. Warfarin dosing and interaction


This is the following app I would love to use. The only barrier is the extra cash:

1) UpToDate. No doubt, UpToDate is the best source of medical information in the world. It is evidence based, straight forward, very detail and yet easy to read and understand. However this app is just too costly for an average doctor. Whooping USD400 per year!

2) Lexicomp.  I know most pharmacist in my hospital use this app. The information is reliable. It cost USD 570 for 3 years subscription.

Yeah, so that's the list. Please share if there is any good medical app I missed?