Why You Should Have Medical Reference Cards As A Physician

By Deanne Shepard


There are cards that provide quick medical information and guidelines on a wide range of medical conditions. These are electronic and they can be downloaded from the internet and printed. Reference cards are available in all systems of the body and aspects of diseases so depending on the area of specialization or study one can choose. With medical reference cards, they give relief to practitioners who cram medical values, procedures, and conditions.

Such cards are designed in small sizes that are portable and they can also be downloaded from various sites to ensure quick access of information. They are made depending on various health topics or body systems and practitioners can obtain them based on the area of specialization. The very first example is the infusion referencing card that provides wide range of information on the types of medicines, which are infused as well as their right quantities.

The adult infusion card contains all drug names needed to treat critically ill adult patients with their right quantities and side effects attached. It assists in knowing the antidote to every drug and what to do when such problem of allergic reactions occur. The card gives you information concerning many drugs including antihypertensive as well as anticoagulants and many others.

The pediatric referencing card provides information regarding different kinds of conditions that affect new infants and how to treat them. It also features names of drugs that can be used in the right doses without causing harm. Special procedures like how to conduct resuscitation to infants is also well explained.

Procedures like ventilation for kids and how to reverse different forms of toxicology are well explained in such a card. Some referencing tools are made for guidelines on ECG. These are broadly divided into two categories, infant and adult ECG referencing card. They provide information regarding signs and symptoms of congenital heart abnormalities that enables physicians to save life immediately a child is born.

There is also the gynecological referencing card that offers information on delivery methods in maternities. Information on how to deliver babies of all kinds and whether there is need for cesarean session or not, is provided in that card. A physician gets information on how to identify septic newborns and how to treat them. It contains all kinds of medication that one can give to neonates at right dosages.

The other crucial one is the airway referencing card. It gives information in all procedures that take place in the airway tract and the medication to use. Insertion of tubes in airway tract is described to thus providing quick references so as to ensure it is done the right way always. It also has additional information in performing Glasgow comma scale to all ages.

The cards are portable and one can carry them on their pocket conveniently. Remembering information sometimes is difficult but with these tools, it is made easy since one can just refer quickly and treat a patient. They are very easy to use and they can be read easily by physicians.




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