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A-Z Free Mobile Device Resources

iPad/iPhone/iPod touch  Windows Mobile BlackBerry  Android

ABG
A multipurpose medical calculator to: 1) Analyse arterial blood gasses 2) Output a recommended FIO2 3) Perform hemodynamic calculations utilizing the Fick principle.

AccessEmergency Medicine (MCW Affiliates Only)
Continuously updated online service that allows users to quickly search the diagnosis & treatment of a broad range of emergency cases with emergency medicine texts and references.
Notes: To create your required individual account click on AccessEmergency Medicine from All E-Resources.

AccessMedicine (MCW Affiliates Only)
Provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than textbooks including Harrison's, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas.
Notes: To create your required individual account click on AccessEmergency Medicine from All E-Resources.

ACP-ASIM

Clinical practice guidelines from the American College of Physicians & the American Society of Internal Medicine.  The guidelines can be read with any palm, pocket pc or iPhone doc reader.

ADA Standards
Clinical practice recommendations from the American Diabetes Association.  (The RediReader,  PRC file, must also installed).

AHRQ ePSS
The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients.

Anesthesia Clinical Tutor and Calculator

Designed to teach and simplify the calculations that are involved in the practice of Anesthesia.

Archimedes (medical calculator)

Access 70 formulas by alphabetical listing, category listing or historical listing.

BMI Calculator
 
The National Heart Blood and Lung Institute's BMI calculator.

CINHAL
(MCW Affiliates Only)
Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.  More than 2900 journals are indexed and full text is available for nearly 600 journals.

Diagnosaurus
 
A differential diagnosis tool that allows you to browse by organ system, symptoms, or diseases.  Contains 1000+ differential diagnoses.

DynaMed

Designed for use at the point of care, providing best available evidence and updated daily.  Available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to DynaMed.  Contact MCW Libraries for a serial number.  (DynaMed serial numbers are valid for only one year.  When the serial number expires after one year, you will need to acquire a new serial number and download the program once again to your mobile device in order to receive updates.)

Epocrates Rx

Drug and prescribing information.  MedTools are also available including a STAT Cholesterol tool and a BMI & Obesity Tool.
Eponyms (for students)
Eponyms brings a short description of more than 1600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node). A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.

Essential Evidence Plus (MCW Affiliates Only)
Evidence-based tool that searches ten databases to provide "just-in-time" information.
Notes: To create your required individual account click on Essential Evidence Plus from All E-Resources. You must be on-campus to create account.

First Consult  
First Consult is an authoritative evidence-based resource.  Designed for use at point of care, it provides access to information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis, and prevention. 
Note: To create your required individual account click on First Consult from All E-Resources. You must be on-campus to create account.

MD Consult (MCW Affiliates Only)
Contains more than 50 full-text medical reference books, full-text key medical journals, 1,000+ peer-reviewed practice guidelines, drug information, patient education handouts.
Notes: To create your required individual account click on MD Consult from All E-Resources. You must be on-campus to create account.
 

MediBabble
Medical translation with phrases written and reviewed by physicians and recorded by hospital based interpreters.

The Medical Letter
Access the latest issues of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter.  Click on Mobile Apps and register for access via the app.  Then download the app for your device.

Medscape 
A database of drug information, disease clinical references, clinical images and procedure videos, drug interaction tool plus CME activities.

Micromedex 
Drug and prescribing information.

mobileMicromedex  
PDA version of Micromedex, the database of unbiased drug info that identifies ingredients for hundreds of thousands of commercial, pharmaceutical and biological substances. Restricted to MCW faculty and students.


Psychiatry Online Mobile (MCW Affiliates Only)
Access to DSM-IV-TR®, American Journal of Psychiatry and the Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 4th Edition. Includes collection of psychiatry references, books, journals and self-assessment tools.
Notes: To create your required individual account click on Psychiatry Online from All E-Resources. You must be on-campus to create account.

pubget Mobile
Search engine for PDFs in the life sciences. It indexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed®.

PubMed for Handhelds

A website for searching Medline with the web browser of any mobile device.  No software installation required.

PubSearch
Fast, efficient application for searching PubMed. Free version only retrieves 10 article citations. Does not include links to full-text.

RefWorks (MCW Affiliates Only)
Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.
Notes: Requires an individual user account and a group code which users may apply from MCW Libraries RefWorks.


REMM Mobile  
Radiation Event Medical Management System contains selected sections on how to diagnose & treat during mass casualty radiological/nuclear events, just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information for those without formal radiation medicine expertise and web-based information that is also downloadable in advance.

Scopus Alerts (Lite)
Application provides mobile access to the Searching and Alerting features of Scopus. Scopus is a database containing journal articles in medicine, science, technology, and the social sciences. Available to MCW, FH, and CHW employees only. Before installation, sign-up for a user name and password on the Scopus web site.

Shots 2012
Shots 2012 is a quick reference guide to the 2012 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules, a collaboration of the ACIP, AAP and AAFP, and the 2012 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the ACIP.  Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names.

Skyscape
Provides access to the following books: Outlines in Clinical Medicine®, Archimedes™ - Medical Calculator, RxDrugs™: Drug Dosing Tool and MedAlert™. Also has many other tools for purchase.

STAT!Ref (MCW Affiliates Only)
Contains the full-text of numerous primary care textbooks. A mobile app is also available.  Please see STAT!Ref Mobile Access for more information and instructions on how to authenticate the mobile app.  Once authenticated, the preferences-based login can be used for 90 days, after which you must click the "Activate/Renew" button from the temporary login account screen in order to authenticate again.

Unbound Medicine 
While most products are not free, Unbound Medicine offers one of the largest collections of textbooks and clinical tools including Harrison's Manual of Medicine and many pocket guides.

UpToDate (MCW Affiliates Only) 
Access available via MCW campus wireless only.

WebMD mobile

Look up symptoms, treatments, first aid, and basic drug information.

WISER

Designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents.  Provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.

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