Vet CPR was developed to give veterinary professionals (veterinarians and technicians) a rapid way to calculate emergency drug doses and volumes that can be used during a CPCR setting or for reference when preparing for patient admission to the hospital or prior to anesthetic events. The user retains full responsibility for drug doses used; this is meant to facilitate emergency preparedness. It includes many drugs (and defibrillator) doses commonly used in a CPCR and post-arrest settings and has different doses based on species where applicable (lidocaine).
The user inputs the patient weight and units of weight measurement (pounds vs kilograms); the app calculates the drug/defibrillator doses. These doses can be viewed on the phone or emailed to an email account of the user’s choosing which can then be printed out or copied into the patient’s electronic medical record for future reference.
The dosages used from this application come from Plumb’s Veterinary Drug Handbook, 6th edition; the defibrillator dosages come from Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, by D. Silverstein and K. Hopper; Saunders 2009.
