NPS Medicinewise Apps
The Doctor's Bag 7.3
The Doctor’s Bag is a free app designed tosupport health professionals during emergency situations.This app supports a health professional’s clinical knowledge inan emergency. It acts as an emergency backup, providing reassurancethat the correct dose is administered. It can also be used as aneducational tool in non-emergency settings, as the information iskept up to date.The Doctor’s Bag module provides recommended doses for drugs inthe PBS Prescriber Bag, including adrenaline doses for anaphylaxisand calculators for weight-based dosing in children.The Anaphylaxis Management module is based on the popularAnaphylaxis: emergency management for health professionals wallchart published by Australian Prescriber. Please note that the“Call 000” function in Step 3 of this module will not work ontablets.The Doctor’s Bag app is provided by Australian Prescriber, atrusted and reliable source of information for prescribing healthprofessionals.
