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Old Jan 26, 2004, 06:06 PM
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pocket pc in the OR

Hello everyone! I’m starting clinical tomorrow, and I’d like to hear everyone’s insight, comments, recommendations, ect. regarding the use of pocket pcs in the OR. Here are a few questions to start things off:

Which devices do you like? Why and why not?
Which programs do you find most helpful and where can I find them?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

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Old Jan 27, 2004, 08:51 AM
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Well I can't help you with PC based platforms but I can help with Palm OS. I have had 2 different Handspring models, 1 B&W which I had trouble reading in the OR under different lighting conditions and their color Prism model which I found very unreliable and difficult to access the add on memory. It finally quit working to my relief and I replaced it with a Sony PEG-NX70. I am very happy with it. The screen is better, battery life longer, and the memory stick is easily accessed. Pictures, movies, sound recordings are all stored on the memory stick and my home computer can access the stick as if it is anouther hard drive. Pretty cool! It has a small built in keyboard if you don't want to use the graffiti method of entering data. It also has a camera and best of all a really good voice recorder and as mentioned, you can have those recordings stored directly on the memory stick. Once home, you just drag and drop the recordings to your home machine and they'll play with Real Player or whatever. I stored a whole semester of advanced pharm without denting the 256K of memory. Was really easy to review that way. For programs I purchased 5 Minute Clinical Consult, Sota Omoigui's Anesthesia Drugs Handbook, Riley Kidometer, Epocrates & MedCalc. That combined with the pediatric drug dosage chart I created using Excel & Sheets to Go (comes w/ the Sony) gets me most of the information I need day to day. I DO NOT reccomend Barash's Clinical Anesthesia for PDA (I do love the paper version though) as there simply too much left out (no charts or pictures. I bought it for my old handsprings and decided not to reinstall it on the new one.

Good luck.

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Old Jan 27, 2004, 08:54 AM
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i have the palm...but i also bought the "anesthesiabrain"
it is a little bound book that is perfectly pocket size that i find is easier to access than the palm....

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