Epocrates Essentials for BlackBerry

This all-in-one clinical reference suite is Epocrates’ most popular premium product. It provides you with searchable drug & disease monographs and diagnostic tools.

Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs:

• Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications.
• Black box warnings, adverse reactions, drug interactions, and more.
• National and regional healthcare insurance formularies.
• Direct access to many manufacturers by phone or email for answers to your critical prescribing questions.
• Approximate retail drug pricing for patients paying out-of-pocket.
• Pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels.
• DEA/FDA status
• Metabolism, excretion, drug class, and mechanism of action

Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions between up to 30 drugs at a time including brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs. Potential interactions are organized by category to help you determine the appropriate action.

Our interaction logic goes beyond prescribing information to incorporate research that factors attributes such as inhibition potency, substrate exclusivity, and therapeutic index to determine clinical significance.

Identify a pill based on physical characteristics (i.e., color, shape) and/or imprint code.

• Select characteristics to view drug names and images
• Tap on a drug image to enlarge the picture

Additional references and tools to help you every day.

• MedMath - dozens of useful medical calculators, including Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure
• Association guidelines and reference tables

Consult in-depth, peer-reviewed disease content developed in collaboration with the BMJ Group, publishers of the British Medical Journal:

• History and exam, including risk and diagnostic factors
• Test categorizes include Initial Tests, Tests to Consider, and Emerging Tests
• Differential diagnosis with links to respective disease and condition topics
• Evidence-based treatment options searchable by patient group and compiled from clinical references and disease state management guidelines
• Follow-up, including monitoring, patient instructions, and complications

Also includes an infectious disease treatment guide:

• Search by system, organism, or organism class
• Access empiric and specific treatment recommendations
• Tap on a drug name to view its complete monograph

Get help with hundreds of lab tests and panels:

• Interpretation, based on high/low abnormal value, which provides differential diagnosis of drug, disease, and spurious causes.
• Integrated drug and disease information and follow-up recommendations
• Reference ranges, preparation and collection guides
• Approximate test cost and commonly associated ICD-9s.

Epocrates Essentials for Blackberry Requirements

• BlackBerry device
  BlackBerry OS 4.1 and above with a data plan -
  BlackBerry version requires wireless installation and updates
• Minimum available memory
  19 MB* + 20K per free health plan formulary selected
  *13 MB of Epocrates Essentials can be installed to a microSD card
• Memory expansion card (strongly recommended with Essentials)
  Any microSD card
• Important notes:
  Requires a wireless data plan or a wi-fi connection to install the application and receive content updates.