ABG app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 2912 ratings )

Utilities Health & Fitness Medical Productivity
Developer: Matthew Decaro

Free

Current version: 1.4.1, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 30 Aug 2008
App size: 13.22 Mb

ABG is a multipurpose medical calculator. The three calculators include functionality to:
1) Analyse arterial blood gasses
2) Output a recommended FIO2, given a determined pO2, FIO2 and a desired pO2
3) Perform hemodynamic calculations utilizing the Fick principle.
4) Determine drip rate from desired dosing for an infusion (or vice-versa)

Please use at your own discretion. No guarantee of the accuracy of the data is implied.

Pros and cons of ABG app for iPhone and iPad

ABG app good for

Great calculator. I am a nurse and this will be a great reference. The poster who asked where do you put in the blood should not have reviewed this!

As a CCU nurse, I can say that this app is very useful. I wish more medical apps would come to the iphone as it has potential, yet most people in healthcare are still using palms and what not because the reference applications are still limited for the iphone. Hopefully this will change very soon. This app is a step in the right direction.

25yr flight medic/ RT I love the program although I agree format should follow same format as lab. Would pay for update with EKG, PFT, treadmill, ventilator calculations, ACLS, and anything pulmonary/respiratory NICU PALS. Ya know Im not asking for much. Great program wouldve paid a buck or 2 for it.

I work in a level III NICU, and most of our blood gases (after the UAC is removed) are done by capillary sample. All of the blood gas calculators Ive seen assume the sample is arterial. Could you develop an option where the PaO2 is not used as a determining factor? Otherwise, Im VERY glad to see this app!!!

Im an intern currently in the ICU and have had some messed up ABGs to interpret. This calc does a pretty darn good job! Thanks!

Didnt think I would find a replacement for ABG pro when I switched to iphone, but this software is excellent. I like that it automatically updates fields in other tabs with data entered anywhere. Only wish that it showed expected bicarb numbers for acute vs. chronic conditions (as ABG pro does).

Some bad moments

Respiratory Therapist x 16 years. Didnt like this app because when I tested it, it used "calculated predictions" based on entered values instead of the actual lab values I entered and ended up giving me a partially incorrect answer. An obvious respiratory acidosis returned as "respiratory AND metabolic acidosis when the bicarb value was normal. Wonder what other bugs need worked out?

I am an RT and the ABG interpretations on this app are wrong! a normal ABG is interpreted as a combined acidosis, etc. Good for a laugh but not for use in a medical setting.

This tool is unable to be used in a clinical situation. I am an RN and I was excited to see a tool that could calculate quickly what takes me a minute or two to do. Then I plugged in an ABG on a patient of mine, and it told me a vague "Resp. Acidosis and Met. Alkalosis", when it was a fully compensated respiratory acidosis... I would NOT recommend this to any student or nurse, because anyone with any experience would laugh at you with the interpretations in this program. DELETED from my iPhone.

Do not download this app unless you want to look like an ignorant dope. I am an RRT as well. EVERY ABG I Plugged in was WRONG, and not just a little. Even a "textbook normal" Blood gas is interpreted incorrectly. Sorry guys.

I am an Intensivist who works in Critical Care Air Medicine, have both taught and published literature on ABG Interpertation and can say 100% that this app is WRONG 95% of the time. It appears, like others have commented, that this app uses predicted values and not calculated ones. Yes, I know this is free, however; if the content is almost always incorrect, and it is, why even waste your time in downloading it?

I was initially excited about this app. But soon after I started entering values while on an ICU rotation, I realized it wasnt exactly accurate. Like others mentioned, it uses predicted values instead of calculated values. Some of the answers are technically correct, like the app may say "respiratory acidosis, metabolic alkalosis" instead of meaning the metabolic alkalosis is partially compensated. Either way, I dont trust this app enough to use it in a bind.

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