ABG App Reviews

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.

Awesome!

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!!!

I think this program would be much more powerful if it did the following: 1. Take into account the anion gap and gap gap 2. Generate a differential diagnosis for each calculated interpretation (eg, MUDPILES for anion gap acidosis. Also there are typos ("acidisos")

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!

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?

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).

Im an RN student and this helped so much with my work. Thank you

Very useful program. No one commented on the hemos so far, but that is also a great plus. Its very helpful in the units. I should know, Decaro was my attending for a couple weeks!

After you input all of the factors, the computed description is average at best. As a respiratory therapist student having to learn ABGs, i was disappointed to see that the answers dont match what the true description is from our instructors. As an example: pH 7.53, PaCO2 56, PaO2 43, and HCO3 33 comes up as "respiratory acidosis, metabolic alkalosis". The true definition of what the instructor is looking for is "Partially compensated metabolic alkalosis with moderate hypoxemia". Please update if at all possible. Thanks

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.

Free or otherwise, this app is wrong too often. As a quick example, say pH is 7.56 (hi), pCO2 is 12 (low), and HCO3 is 26 (normal). Anyone with a medical background should realize this is acute respiratory alkalosis. However, this app says respiratory alkalosis & metabolic alkalosis. Oops.

This is simple and fast. Works great!

This is never accurate and completely false. I would not rely on this is a medical environment