Pedi QuikCalc App Reviews

This app contains a lot of great information and a large medication database. Very helpful for double checking my dosages!

Especially for quick weight-based dosing!

Ive been using this app for about a year now. It has eliminated the need to use about 5 separate apps since it has so many tools! Im very pleased with the drug dosing and bili calculator. Also the BMI calculator and instant IV fluid calculator are quite handy. Vaccine dosing schedules are included too. This app was definitely a bargain.

Very Limited drugs are included, neither Ibuprofen nor Bactrim are found! Worthless app! Waste of money!

I work as a primary care pediatrician, and I find this to be the most useful app to assist me in my clinical practice on a daily basis. Its weight-based dosing formulary covers 95% of the medicines I use on the daily basis, and it contains an excellent list of curated links to commonly used websites and resources. A fantastic resource that has earned its place on my home screen.

If I was only allowed to pick one app for my daily pediatric life this would be the one. Sure you can find all of this in different places, but having it all together in one is fantastic! The fact that it is an app and not a link to a website makes a speedy and thats key here.

This is an indispensable app that I use atleast a couple of times per day. Im a family doc and dont have time to memorize dosing for every weight and dont want to risk miscalculating. Only Wish meds were listed by name brand and generic and that it was updated more regularly

I retract my previous review. I deleted the app & downloaded the app again & all is well.

Now that I have figured out how to work this app (I am a new FNP and have been trying to find what I want to use regularly) I do enjoy it quite a bit. What I DON’T like is that the meds are sorted by BRAND name. When I think of a medication to give I don’t think Zithromax…I think azithromycin. I don’t think Motrin. I think ibuprofen. I tried to find a setting to sort a different way but I couldn’t find anything. I WISH WISH WISH there was a way to sort them either way! I love that I can at least favorite the meds I use the most so I don’t have to scroll SO far to find the brand name but it is still a little obnoxious sometimes.

very poor narcotic selection, brand names only, does not offer different combination strength for narcotic solution preparations. I suspect the positive reviews are mostly paid. This app does not dovetail very well with real world usage. I guess you should be suspicious when something with a huge need, (pediatric dose calculator) has only a few reviews

Sorry you’re having troubles, Tony S. Actually, there are 17 narcotic/opioid medications in the formulary, in multiple formulations, listed by trade and generic names, including 5 PCA medications! All medications are searchable by trade or generic names from the search bar. If you look under the All Versions tab, there are 46 reviews, and none of them are paid! You’re right, there is a huge need for pediatric dosing apps, and I’ve worked very hard to make Pedi QuikCalc the best. Many, many users agree! Check out the built-in help file; there are great tips to help you get the most out of Pedi QuikCalc. BTW, it’s hard to call a $2 app overpriced!

I just started using this App but have a few observations so far. Pro’s: I really like how some of the common medications are separated by indication, e.g. acyclovir (varicella) vs. Acyclovir (HSV). I like the additional app features such as mid-parent height, growth chart, and basic dosage calculator. However, I could not get the growth chart to work. I got an error message regardless of the height and weight I entered. Cons: there should be a simple way to sort between only brand name and generic meds in the list view. Not all meds are listed under both their trade and generic names e.g. Keflex yes but not cephalexin, Phenergan but not promethazine. This makes it difficult to search unless you have a very thorough mental inventory of both trade and generic names. Several of the web links did not work. Recommendation to the author: I think you have a great app in development, but I am concerned about the lack of dosage maximums built into the calculator. e.g. I was running sample calculations with decadron and the suggested dose for a 56 kg child was 33.7mg. This exceeds the published max daily dose of 20mg and the typical max dose of 10mg. I would like to see each drugs calculation stop at the max dose despite the weight entered AND have the max daily dose listed right below the suggested dose for safety. I would also suggest that there be an option to quickly select different supply concentrations, route of administration, dosage ranges, and frequency of dosing, etc. While this app has a lot of potential, I think some of the problems I described could lead to dosing errors. I will continue to test the app and re-post another review soon.