The original paper back of the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy has been one of the most popular infectious disease references for a long time since the early seventies.
The PDA version is supplied by USBMIS and no other developer ever seems to have the copyright. In fact, SG has been the hallmark that distinguished USBMIS from the beginning.
So here’s how it looks;
As we can see above, the home screen has two major portals either a direct search or a link to the table of contents.
The reference is updated annually and it includes all the detailed information that we ever dreamed to have about antibiotics with relevant clinical applications.
Ever wondered what antibiotics work on Gram positive microorganisms or ever thought what the spectrum of use of Macrolides! Puzzle no more, The Sanford Guide delivers these tips and valuable info in a spoon feeding style.
Pediatric dosages, immunizations, recommended empirical therapy, prophylaxis, drug interactions, and much more, you name it.
They recently added a great feature called Inter Linking which is exactly like Skyscape’s Smart linking technology which will make the purchase of their titles synergistic as we can link the keywords across the different installed titles. They even started marketing a bundle of three titles under the name of Interlinking.
The USBMIS website lists only a Blackberry version, but don’t be fooled by that, just register and start the purchase process and you will be then asked which platform you’d prefer including Palm and Windows Mobile. Or else, if you don’t feel comfortable with just go to the Sanford Guide Website and purchase it from there directly, you will get exactly the same USBMIS app that will be synced with USBMIS servers.
One wish we have to make is the availability of such a lovely application on the iPhone.
The Sanford is certainly the best of its kind and we wonder how the Red Book is still rated as the best on the Pda4peds Best AntiBiotics app vote!