Pedi STAT

Editor's Review

Pedi-STAT is an indispensable tool 🧰 for healthcare professionals managing pediatric emergencies. Designed for RNs, paramedics, physicians, and other caregivers, this app provides rapid access to critical information, ensuring the best possible care in high-pressure situations. From medication dosages to equipment sizes, Pedi-STAT minimizes the risk of errors and saves valuable time. ⏰

The app's features include rapid results for airway interventions, such as endotracheal tube sizes, depth, intubation medication dosages, ventilator settings, and sedation. For cardiac resuscitation, it offers weight-specific dosages for resuscitation medications, cardioversion, and defibrillation. 🫀 Pedi-STAT also provides access to age and weight-specific pediatric equipment, including foley catheters, airway management tools, chest and NG tubes, and peripheral and central line sizes. 🩺

In addition, the app includes seizure medication dosages and management protocols for hypoglycemia, including age-specific dextrose concentrations. Users can reference age-specific normal vital signs and access procedural sedation dosages, including single-dose medications and infusions, as well as reversal agents. 💊 Calculated pain management medications are also readily available. The app supports the medical management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis. 🚑

Pedi-STAT stands out because it allows users to quickly access critical information accurately, without relying on memory or cumbersome textbooks. With just a few taps, users have access to all the necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based and age-specific medication dosages and equipment sizes. Given that many patients present with minimal known information, all results can be calculated rapidly with only a known age, date of birth, weight, length, or height. Simply enter the known variable, and the data is instantly calculated. 👶

Developed by an Emergency Physician, this app minimizes the risk of medical errors, allowing providers to spend more time caring for the patient and less time looking up and calculating doses. It is a critical companion for any physician, nurse, paramedic, or medical trainee involved in the care of critically ill pediatric patients. 🌟

Features

• Airway interventions: tube sizes, dosages, settings

• Cardiac resuscitation: medication dosages, cardioversion

• Age/weight-specific pediatric equipment sizes

• Seizure medication dosages

• Hypoglycemia management with dextrose concentrations

• Age-specific normal vital signs reference

• Procedural sedation dosages and reversal agents

• Calculated pain management medications

Pros

• Rapid access to critical pediatric information

• Reduces risk of medical errors

• Saves time in emergent situations

Cons

• Requires initial data input for calculations

• Dependence on device reliability