Epocrates Essentials Deluxe for Palm

Our top-tier clinical reference suite includes thousands of searchable drug & disease monographs and diagnostic tools. Also features ICD-9 and CPT® billing codes and an extensive medical dictionary.

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.

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.

Look up ICD-9 and CPT® codes by entering part of the code, part of the diagnosis/procedure name, or drill down by category. Save frequently used codes to your Favorites.
CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Reference definitions for 100,000+ terms, prefixes, suffixes, eponyms, procedures, and protocols. Plus, review usage information, abbreviations, and synonyms.

The Epocrates Medical Dictionary is sourced from Stedman's Medical Dictionary 28th Edition.

MedTools
A wide range of specialty tools which you can customize so you get only the tools that are most useful in your practice. Featured MedTool includes MedMath calculators, e.g. Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure.

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Mobile Resource Centers offer clinicians useful, up-to-date medical news and scientific abstracts, selected by a Contributing Editor who is a leading researcher or expert in the field.

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Epocrates Essentials Deluxe for Palm Requirements:

• Palm OS
  Palm or Sony with Palm® OS v5.0 or higher
• Not compatible with Palm Pre
• Computer (for syncing)
  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista with Palm Desktop 3.1 or higher
• Minimum available memory
  37 MB* + 20K per free health plan formulary selected
  How to determine amount of free memory
• Expansion (memory) cards
  Any Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC) or Mini-SD that is 8 MB or larger
• Important notes:
  • *21 MB of Epocrates Essentials Deluxe can be installed to supported expansion (memory) cards.
  • If you have a device with Palm's new Non Volatile File System (NVFS), note that the amount of memory required on your device is about 33% larger than specified on this page. This is a known Palm issue. Devices currently with NVFS are the Tungsten T5, Treo 650, and LifeDrive.
  • 16 MB devices without an expansion card are not fully supported for Epocrates Essentials Deluxe.
  • Epocrates Essentials Deluxe cannot be installed to computers with 64-bit processors.