Acid Plus - The ABG Calculator App Reviews

Could factor in anion gap adjustment that depend on albumin levels.

This is a great little app, however, it stopped working (frozen) on my iPhone5s! Please fix.

It must be with the last software uptade on Iphone 5. When I open it, frozen screen and cant do anything... Please update App to fix this bug!!

Excellent software. Use it every day at my Hospital in the ER Department and ICU. Well worth the price.

This program is AWSOME for RT students learning how to figure out acid-base balance equations. I have seen other similar applications but this one is so easy to manipulate and understand. I will use it all the time especially in clinicals. This appication is worth having and I recommend it for anyone whether it be a nurse, RT or even medical students. It will be well utilized!

Easy to use, and straightforward implementation. Ive wanted an app like this to help me work out acid base problems for years. This is as good a program as youre gonna get!

Literally...using this program could result in a fatality as the information is inaccurate. A new update should be put out soon, but until then this program is worthless

I will be recommending this app to my nursing students. Its a great way to see how small changes lead to large problems. Excellent use of the iPhone interface.

Acid Plus continues to be the leading ABG Calculator for the iPhone-iPod touch. I have been a PA-C for 11yrs practicing Nephrology and interpret ABGs daily. This App is spot on, excellent work guys. I strongly recommend this App without reservation for all.

As a resident, I cant emphasize enough on how useful the app is. I used it extensively in the critical care setting and it works great!!!!! Very accurate and extremely easy to use. You should definitely get it.

Im a medical student who is going through the core medicine rotatation. I have used this app several times to analyze ABGs and it does the job quite well. You can recall previous entries with the refresh button. The graph mode that shows you were you are on the blood gas spectrum is also very helpful. A venous blood gas analysis mode (limited as it is) would also be helpful. It would also be helpful if it was possible to more explicity save prior ABG analyses. I have compared the results from Acid Plus with the results from the Mediquations Acid-Base compensation. The two are consistent but at times when the ABG are somewhat off (due to analyzer issues, etc.) or otherwise ambiguous, Mediquations provides alternative interpretations, which Acid Plus does not. However, Acid Plus has been reasonable and presented the most likely interpretation which has been consistent with clinical observations in cases that I have checked. One area of possible inaccuracy could occur in cases where the albumin is very low. From Rennke and Denker (2007), in hypoalbuminemia, the normal anion gap value must be adjusted downward. "The approximate correction factor is a reduction in the anion gap of 1.5 mEq/L for every 1.0-g/dL reduction {from 4.0 to 4.5} in the plasma albumin concentration ...." Thus, low albumin can change the interpretation of anion gap. This application does not consider this.

There have been several more updates since my last review and I think the program has come a long way. Improvents could include showing the Henderson hasselbach results so you know youre working with good numbers to start. I also run into quite a few triple disorders and seeing all the calculated numbers would be useful instead of having to manually calculate it every time. Anyway, this program should still be used with caution, but it can at least point you in the right direction now.

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WHY IS BASE EXCESS/DEFICIT NOT A PARAMETER IN YOUR LIST FOR ABG ANALYSIS?

Waist of time. It can not handle mixed acid base problems like an aspirin overdose. It will give an error message "these numbers violate the HH equation." I guess my patients failed math.

It takes me to its web site to sell me other products. I dont like that!.The free ABG App is better. What a waist of $ 3.99 !!!