The Riley Kidometer is a quick and intuitive database of age-based normals. It was created by the staff of Riley Hospital for Children and is now available for users everywhere.
The user taps in the years, months and gender of the child at the bottom of the screen and a set of basic vitals is displayed. By tapping in the upper right corner a list of chapters is displayed allowing the user to browse through over 200 categories of information for each age.
The following chapters are included:
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Adolescent Labs includes normal values for labs that vary depending on the sexual development (Tanner Stage) of an adolescent patient.
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Basic Vitals has the normal range for weight, height, head circumference, blood pressure, respiratory rate, heart rate and peak flows.
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Cardiology and EKG provides normal values for EKG findings that vary with age.
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Development lists skills that the child should have acquired. Failure to learn new skills is often the first clue to some of the most severe diseases of childhood.
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Endocrinology Labs has a complete database of all the normal hormone concentrations for growing children. One of the largest chapters in Kidometer, the Endocrinology chapter has 42 different lab values that vary with age and gender.
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Growth and Nutrition has detailed information on growth including: height velocity, daily caloric and protein requirements, along with age specific recommendations for feeding infants and children.
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Hematology is a complete list of normal blood counts and other laboratory clues to anemia.
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Laboratory has a complete list of normal laboratory values for children.
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Prevention is dedicated to giving age specific advice on keeping children healthy. It has information on injury/illness prevention, teaching parenting skills and other preventive health issues. Now includes values for CSF protein, WBC and glucose.
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Resuscitation gives a recommended size for endotracheal, foley and chest tubes. It also calculates the code doses for children at the 50% for weight in the selected age.
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Trisomy 21. Children with Down Syndrome grow differently than other children. So, we have included information on the normal height, weight and head size for these special children.
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Vaccine gives specific, age-appropriate vaccination recommendations.
The information for the Riley Kidometer was assembled using a rigorous evidence based medicine approach and references for each chapter are included in the program.