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Introduction. ..Features. . .System Requirements . .. Instructions . .. Background
CardioMath® is a Palm OS™ cardiology calculator with over 50 commonly used formulas in cardiovascular medicine. It is designed to assist physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technologists, technicians, and other allied health professionals in the field of cardiovascular medicine to perform essential day-to-day calculations accurately and efficiently. These formulas are also commonly used by medical professionals involved in intensive and emergency care, internal medicine, and rehabilitation. In addition, this program also serves as a reference and an education aid to these calculations.
CardioMath® covers the following major areas ...
- Echocardiography
- EKG
- Epidemiology
- Exercise Stress Test
- General Medicine
- Hemodynamics
- Unit Conversion (SI and US)
- Free for non-commercial use
- Formulas arranged in major categories
- Comprehensive (more than 50 commonly used formulas)
- Consistent and easy-to-use user interface
- Onscreen numeric keypad for easy entry
- Global selection of SI or US units
- Information screens contain a short description of the clinical utility for each formula and value ranges provided when appropriate
- References are provided for each formula
- No external run-time programs or libraries required
- Any Palm OS handheld device (Palm, Treo, Sony, Handspring, Handera, etc.) running OS 3.5.1 or above (earlier OS may work, but has not been tested)
- It occupies approximately 180 Kb of memory
- Currently does not support Pocket PC or Windows CE but a version is being planned
- Program can run on Mac or Windows OS using the Palm OS Emulator available from PalmSource
Keypad functions
=: Calculate and display result
AC: Clear all fields
C: Clear selected field
SI/US: Toggle between SI and US units. The button displays the current mode
Menu: Return to main menu
Info: Display the information, value ranges, and references for each formula
Background
This program was originally designed during cardiology training at McGill Unversity, Montreal, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Some of the formulas were initially implemented in Excel and FileMaker Pro for clinical use.
CardioMath® for Palm OS was implemented in C using Code Warrior v8.0 (Metrowerks). A large part of the debugging was done using the Palm OS Emulator from PalmSource.
