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What are people commonly using for 'simple' PK calculations - scientific
calculators or "palm/pocket" devices?
Thanks for responses.
stever1.at.mindspring.com
Stephen S Rinsler, MD
Chester, NJ 07930
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Steve,
I use both. It depends on the situation. I typically carry an HP 32S
calculator and do "simple" calculations at the bedside. Sometimes,
however, I will use a program called APK Palm for my TRGpro (similar
to a Palm IIIxe). You can take a look at APK Palm at
www.rxkinetics.com. There are other kinetics programs available for
the Palm OS and for Windows CE. I would say, use what ever you're
comfortable with. If I can help you in any way, please drop me a line.
Thanks
Jerry
Jerry L. Fahrni, Pharm.D.
Clinical Pharmacist
Valley Children's Hospital
9300 Valley Children's Place
Madera, California 93638
559-353-5502
559-353-5515 (FAX)
jfahrni.-a-.valleychildrens.org
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HP Jornado 540, HP 680LX.
Ilbeyi Agabeyoglu
ilbeyi.at.tr.net
Ankara,Turkey.
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I use a HP Jornada 540. I have taught students how to program and use a
TI-85 or TI-86.
Ron Herman
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Ronald A. Herman, Ph.D. ....
E-mail: Ronald-A-Herman.at.uiowa.edu
University of Iowa
S525 College of Pharmacy
Iowa City, IA 52242.
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For those interested in creating their own, note that there exists a
spreadsheet program for the Palm called Quicksheet. Users can create a
computation sheet in Excel on their computer, down load that Excel sheet via
synchronization and execute the Excel sheet in the Palm in Quicksheet. There
also exists Quickchart to display plots generated in Quicksheet.
Reference:
Cutting Edge Software, inc.
2351 W. Northwest Hwy, Suite 3265
Dallas, TX
http://www.cesinc.com/
e-mail: Sales.-at-.cesinc.com
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For those interested, I'm using a Handspring Visor with MathUPro v2.0.9 from
www.creativecreek.com. It is an RPN calculator similar to the old HP 15C of
many years back. I also use TinySheet by iambic Software, Inc at
www.iambic.com. It is also a spreadsheet which your can import Excel sheets
and use. For patient lists and calculating Apache II scores, I use HanDBase
by DDH Software, Inc at www.ddhsoftware.com or www.hadbase.com.com/gallery.
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PKers,
Continuing the PharmPK thread on hand held devices for pharmacokinetics,
we developed an easy to run yet comprehensive PK analysis program that runs
in Excel. You can download a demo and learn more about it under "PK
Solutions" on our web site at http://www.SummitPK.com While there,
download a free compilation of 75 pharmacokinetic equations.
PK Solutions goes anywhere Excel goes and should run on any Windows CE or
Pocket PC version of Excel once Microsoft starts supporting VBA on these
platforms (VBA is the underlying macro language to all Office products).
Regards,
David S. Farrier, Ph.D.
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David S. Farrier, Ph.D. Phone: 970-249-1389
Summit Research Services Fax:: 970-249-1360
68911 Open Field Dr. Email: DFarrier.aaa.SummitPK.com
Montrose, CO 81401 Web: http://www.SummitPK.com
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This sounds very interesting. We are just beginning to make inroads into
handheld applications and having something available for PK calculations is
very interesting.
We are currently using the USC*Pack software for our kinetics program and are
very pleased with it. What does PK Solutions offer that makes it more useful
in an active clinical setting where data is often 'fuzzy' - While I know it
makes Roger cringe, the USC*pack software is very useful when data is 'fuzzy'
and one has to make a best guess.
What is needed is a package that will allow the use of every data point we
get - especially those that are not real high quality. If that can be done
with a handheld I'm all for it
Bob B
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Dear Bob:
Thanks for your comments about the USC*PACK programs. I do
not cringe a bit when things are "fuzzy". You are quite correct - we
have worked hard to make the programs flexible and useful. They are
always designed to do the best job possible with whatever data you
have at any time, good or poor. We would welcome any suggestions that
anyone might have at any time to make them better.
Along this line, we are currently working on a new and more
sophisticated and capable windows version that uses nonparametric
population (NP) models, gets interacting multiple model Bayesian
posterior NP joint densities that should help to detect unsuspected
changes in a patient's parameter values during the period of data
analysis, and which uses multiple model (MM) dosage design to develop
dosage regimens to achieve target goals specifically with maximum
precision. It uses the combined strength of the NP models and the MM
dosage design. We hope it will be ready sometime this summer. It
should help us to do still better when things are fuzzy.
Very best regards,
Roger Jelliffe
Roger W. Jelliffe, M.D. Professor of Medicine, USC
USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics
2250 Alcazar St, Los Angeles CA 90033, USA
Phone (323)442-1300, fax (323)442-1302, email= jelliffe.at.hsc.usc.edu
Our web site= http://www.usc.edu/hsc/lab_apk
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