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Lotus 123 for Doctors
Lotus 123 for Doctors
I have discovered a couple of uses for Lotus. First, I keep a spreadsheet
for each patient I have in Intensive Care. The spreadsheet has places to
enter all their lab test values, and this allows me to follow trends in
electrolytes and fluid balance. A plot of selected ranges in the data can
be most enlightening for planning the course of treatment, and trends developing
over weeks can easily be detected and corrected before they reach critical
proportions. For example, slow alterations in potassium levels and I/O
can be easily seen when plotted as a graph, yielding a better understanding
of the patient's status.
1-2-3 Lab Test: Graphic
The second use for Lotus is as a look-up table for drip rates
according to dosage for a variety of cardioactive drugs. It is easy to
make a simple mistake in arithmetic that would be trivial in another professions,
but disastrous or even fatal when you're dealing with critically ill human
beings. This spreadsheet allows me to be confident, even at two a.m., that
I am not making any stupid mistakes. It is quicker than doing it by hand,
too.
I have just finished a third use for Lotus. It is a drug interaction
database that will find conflicts when I type in a list of patient medications.
I have the data imported on over 810 different drug interactions, but still
have the programming and macro automation to do.
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