Neph Calc

PLEASE NOTE: 'Calculate by QxMD' has replaced Neph Calc as the most up to date Nephrology clinical calculator and decision support tool.

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From the maker  The ECG Guide  comes Neph Calc, freely available to the medical community.

This Nephrology app is a critical tool for anyone - not just Nephrologists managing patients with renal disease or electrolyte disorders.  

- Determine the risk of your patient requiring dialysis after angiography or cardiovascular surgery
- Calculate creatine clearance based on a 24 hour urine collection or estimate GFR with estimation formulas
- Calculate the water deficit for your patient with hypernatremia
- Determine if your patient is volume contracted - calculate fractional excretion of sodium or fractional excretion of urea  for patients on diuretics 
- Calculate anion gap and osmolal gap
- Calculate URR and Kt/V for your dialysis patients 
- Calculate the risk of progression of membranous nephropathy
- Estimate GFR with Cockcroft-Gault, MDRD, and the more recent Mayo Quadratic formula
- Calculate TTKG  transtubular potassium gradient  in hypokalemia and hyperkalemia
- Use the Henderson-Hasselbach equation to work out acid-base cases
- Calculate access recirculation

In addition, this program includes some of the most useful content from other areas of medicine, including general practice, cardiology, hematology, gastroenterology, and obstetrics.

QxMD Software Features
- Developed by expert practicing physicians
- Point-of-care tools in the areas of nephrology, cardiology, general practice, hematology, gastroenterology and obstetrics.
- Detailed references
- Comprehensive results 
- SI and US units

*Compatible with STORM, however STORM users will need to use their device in landscape mode while inputting numerical values. This will be corrected ASAP.