Pediatric pedia 1.2

About the Pedia App

The Pedia App stands as the inaugural professional application tailored specifically for pediatricians—encompassing house officers, residents, and professors—within the Middle East. This app offers a comprehensive suite of diagnostic tools and calculations that pediatricians encounter in their daily practice, presenting them in a streamlined, efficient, and precise manner.

Distinguished by its sophisticated features, the Pedia App fulfills the diverse needs of pediatricians, providing functionality that is unmatched by any other application. As such, it may serve as an essential digital handbook for practitioners in the field of pediatrics.

Features of the Pedia App:

1. Growth Curves: Includes weight-for-age, length-for-age, head circumference-for-age, and weight-for-length growth parameters based on CDC growth curves.
2. Jaundice Curves: Utilizes AAP curves to allow doctors to plot bilirubin levels and determine appropriate management strategies, including phototherapy or exchange transfusion.
3. Vital Signs: Monitors blood pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate with thresholds for normal ranges across different age groups. Specialized charts are provided for assessing blood pressure categories including normal, prehypertensive, and hypertensive.
4. Emergency Room (ER) Tools:
   • Offers a dose calculator for resuscitation and emergency medications and infusions.
   • Includes size specifications for equipment used in the ER, tailored to pediatric age groups.
5. Medical Calculator: Facilitates quick and easy calculations for frequently utilized equations and scoring systems.
6. Drug Calculator:
   • Provides detailed information on drug dosing, interactions, adverse effects, contraindications, and incorporates a calculator to assist in accurate dose determination, referencing the Harriet Lane Handbook.
   • Features a section dedicated to drug adjustments in renal failure.
7. Tutorial Videos: Links to instructional videos demonstrating essential procedures commonly performed in pediatric care.
8. Announcements: Hosts valuable links to books, drug information, reputable medical websites, and upcoming conferences.
9. Vaccination Information: Contains immunization schedules alongside important details pertaining to each vaccine.
10. Favorites Feature: Allows users to compile all preferred resources in one convenient location.