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UpToDate: Useful Features

Clinical Calculators

UpToDate includes more than 165 interactive medical calculators that allow you to enter the values in commonly used formulas to obtain numerical data.These calculators are also available within the mobile app version.

To find the Calculators:

Option 1: Select  from the main tool bar on the website or the menu on the app.

Option 2: Search the term "calculators" in the search bar. 

Electrocardiograms

UpToDate® includes electrocardiogram examples and diagnoses.

  1. Type "ecg test" in the search box.

  2. Choose one of the ECG test topics (for example, "Intermediate ECG test") by clicking on the title.

  3. Read the case history, click the waveform link to open a window that displays the ECG strip, along with a normal ECG strip.  The diagnosis will display on the right.

Drug Information

UpToDate provides access to foundational content from the leading drug information resource, Lexicomp, including information on drug dosing, interactions, adverse effects, and other drug-related content.  Searching a drug name will return drug information topics and other UpToDate topics containing information related to that drug.

 

Select  from the top menu bar.

Enter two or more drug names, then click  for the potential interactions.

VisualDx

VisualDx images are integrated with UpToDate. When searching in UpToDate, all VisualDx results are highlighted with a  icon. 

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