Epocrates Essentials App Review for the iPhone – Does the legendary medical app live up to the hype?

Epocrates Rx Pro – $99 per year – Key Features:

• Includes all the above features PLUS:
• Infectious Disease Treatment Guide – Basically, this enables the ID section on the search function. In the example I use, when you search for pneumonia, you’re given the most common presentations.  Once you select the applicable pathology you are given empiric and specific drug regimes.  The specific regimes are organized by the particular pathogen.  There is also an info tab, containing some brief information, and an area to add your own custom notes.

 

 

• Brand Name OTC drug products – This section allows you to quickly look up over the counter drugs, and provides basically the same information you see with prescription drugs.  In the screen shots I took of Children’s Advil Cold, you can see how this functionality can be useful in reminding parents the dosing for their kids.

 

 

• Alternative Medicines – Complementary and Alternative medicines are added in this version.  In the searches I did, these medicines did not contain the same wealth of knowledge as other drugs.  Obviously, part of this can be attributed to the lack of hard literature on some of these medicines.

 

 

• IV compatibility checker – The IV compatibility checker is found in the “More” tab, and has a similar navigation as the drug interactions checker.

 

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