Price: $26.99

A Practical Guide to Managing Paediatric Problems on the Postnatal Ward Review

Our Review

Are you the kind of prenatal patient who likes to be a step ahead of the doctors, showing off how much you actually know better than they do? Have you been carefully drafting your birthing plan, reading up on the pitfalls of all of the prenatal, labor, delivery and postnatal interventions so you are prepared to argue against them in a quest for the perfect birthing experience? Then “A Practical Guide to Managing Paediatric Problems on the Postnatal Ward” is for you!

OK, kidding aside. This app is not intended for patients but for doctors, nurses and midwives. It contains a plethora of data and tools for dealing with every manner of postnatal issue, from an Apgar Score calculator to a Weight Converter. An ebook is included with detailed overviews of the newborn exam, abnormal findings, and clinical problems. Included video and audio clips show examples as well.

If you are a doctor, nurse, or midwife, I would certainly hope you would have internalized the information contained within this app and that your hospital would have supplied you with the requisite tools for calculating things like Apgar scores and phototherapy requirements by the time you meet a woman in labor. If you are a medical student or midwife apprentice, this app may be useful to you in your studies.

If you are a prenatal patient, educate yourself by all means, but please relax, enjoy your birthing experience, however it turns out, and leave the medicine to the medical practitioners.

By Age Range, By App Feature, For Parents, Health, Pregnancy, Reviews

August 31st, 2010 by Nina Ignaczak Share

Application Detail

A Practical Guide to Managing Paediatric Problems on the Postnatal Wards

Developer: ITDCS Ltd
Released: 2010-05-07 00:00:00
Price: $26.99

Description from the Developer

This application has been developed by an experienced team of paediatricians and neonatologists to provide the user with the advice and tools they will need to manage the most commonly encountered paediatric problems on the postnatal ward.

When a doctor embarks on their first paediatrics rotation covering the postnatal wards they often find that their training and previous experience leave them ill prepared for the task at hand. This is because they will not have encountered the majority of the problems they will be expected to deal with and those that they have dealt with before in adults are often managed very differently in babies. This problem is further confounded by the lack of available resources by which the doctor can increase their knowledge and traditionally this has to be done by on the job learning.

This application attempts to address the above problem by providing the user with three useful resources combined into a single application. The e-book offers practical “hands on” advice on how to deal with the most commonly encountered paediatric problems on the postnatal ward. The advice offered represents the results of a thorough literature review combined with the pooled experience of the authors. At the end of each topic there are a number of links to sources of further reading.

The audiovisual section contains a number of useful videos and audio presentations by experienced neonatologists on important topics such as how to carry out a newborn check, jaundice and hypoglycaemia.

Finally, the calculators section contains a number of useful tools that will help you workout an infants feeding requirements or calculate their need for phototherapy.

Contents

Section One - e-Book

1. The Newborn Check

2. Examination Abnormalities

a. Scalp Swelling
b. Abnormal Red Reflex
c. Preauricular Skin Tags
d. Facial Nerve Palsy
e. Tongue-Tie
f. Cleft Lip & Palate
g. Fractured Clavicle
h. Erb’s Palsy
i. Single Palmar Crease
j. Breast Swelling
k. Heart Murmurs
l. Absent Femorals
m. Abnormal Hips
n. Two Cord Vessels
o. Umbilical Hernia
p. Divarication of the Recti
q. Inguinal Hernia
r. Undescended Testes
s. Hydrocele
t. Hypospadias
u. Talipes
v. Sacral Dimple
w. Bruising
x. Birthmarks
y. Rashes

3. Clinical Problems

a. Respiratory Distress
b. Cyanosis
c. Tachycardia
d. Bradycardia
e. Sepsis
f. Jaundice
g. Hypoglycaemia
h. Poor Feeding
i. Weight Loss > 10%
j. Vomiting
k. Jittery
l. Not Passed Urine
m. Bowels Not Opened
n. Sticky Eyes
o. Redness Around Umbilical Cord
p. Pink Staining on Nappy
q. Vaginal Bleeding
r. Maternal Thyroid Disease
s. Maternal Hepatitis B
t. BCG Vaccination
u. Vitamin K

Section Two - Video and Audio

1. The Newborn Check
2. Common Postnatal Problems - Part One
3. Common Postnatal Problems - Part Two
4. Common Postnatal Problems - Part Three
5. Hypoglycaemia
6. Hydronephrosis
7. Jaundice

Section Three - Calculators

1. Weight Convertor
2. Volume Convertor
3. Gestational Age
4. Feeding Requirements
5. Phototherapy (works with μmol/L or mg/dL)
6. Apgar Score