Blood Gases
Blood Gases was written by Bruce Argyle, MD
Does the thought of "acid-base balance" make your skin crawl? Do "A-a gradients" terrorize you? You need Mad Scientist Software's Blood Gases program. This terrific program teaches some of the most difficult, yet most important material in medicine.
There's a normal values drill for those just learning. For experts: an A-a gradient tutorial, calculation drill, and interpretation quiz. You'll learn acid-base balance in a tutorial and interpretation quiz. There's also a teaching tutorial and calculation drill for acidosis correction -- very important now that "routine" bicarb is no longer given. During any of Blood Gases' training drills, you can refer to the on-line manual for additional learning.
Not only does Blood Gases teach, but it will also interpret lung function and acid-base balance for you. You'd never expect that of such an inexpensive program.
Try Blood Gases. Find out why it's one of our most popular programs! A demo is available. You can click here to download a self-extracting archive from this site.
The EMBBS member price is $62.95.
A Blood Gases Site License is available for teaching institutions. It allows unlimited on-site use (installation on multiple computers). Site License for Blood Gases costs $298.
Blood Gases runs on Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. It requires VGA (or better) graphics, 4 meg RAM, hard drive, and mouse. (A DOS version with reduced options and simpler graphics is available.)
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