Pediatric PDA Blog

Patrick Verloo released his first ever iPhone app and it is an APGAR calculator.

Given the fact there are dozens of Apgar calcs for the iPhone by now one would think this app is not going to add anything. However, there’s something in this app that is not seen in any other Apgar score calculator which is a timer.

It’s a smart idea to start the time once the baby is born so that we know when to record the one minute and five minute Apgar scores, this is really handy. Peds and Neo colleagues keep their eye on the wall mounted clock and then pick out their calculator, now with this app they can have them both in one single interface.

But for a single calc app it’s unlikely to stay resident in out iPhone devices as we appreciate more and more the limited real state we have on the iPhone and so ultimately we will keep those multifunctional apps, like for example keeping Mediquations instead of having a number of single calc apps.

$1.99 seems to be high of an Apgar score, it should be free or at least 99 cents.

Download the APGARTimer from iTunes Store.

Tags: APGARTimer, Patrick Verloo

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