ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator

14/02/2024

It is finally here! The MiniVetGuide Calculator is live!!

The same calculators that you know and trust - combined with the best selling and most trusted Veterinary resources - the MiniVetGuide! ALSO with new and improved user experience and... new calculators on the way!

This platform is BIGGER, BETTER and READY TO GROW!

To thank our original subscribers, we have a special present for you - this notification should be visible on your app now!

The ReadyVet Calculator app will close in 1 month's time so please make sure that you download the MiniVetGuide Calculator before then!

Find it in the App Store and on Google Play.

The MiniVetGuide Calculator - more than just your average Veterinary calculator... it's your trusted clinical companion in your pocket!

If you have any questions or concerns, please email us: [email protected]

24/10/2023

The secret is OUT!

ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator, the first Veterinary Calculator to not only calculate but help you interpret and treat your patients is becoming the MiniVetGuideCalculator…

What does this mean?
- Improved functionality
- Exciting new calculators coming soon
- Aligned with the resources that you know and trust.

It’s just around the corner… for all our incredible foundation users, THANK YOU! We have a THANK YOU coming your way SOON!

Stay tuned for the next exciting update… just around the corner 🙌

19/10/2023

We're sorry that we've been quiet and you haven't heard from us for a while...

We've been busy working on something EXCITING in the background!
- To make your life easier...
- Help to save you MORE time...
- Improve MORE patient outcomes...

We know you're going to LOVE it!

Stay tuned! Updates coming VERY soon!

saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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13/07/2023

A 4yo male neuter Australian Cattle Dog is referred to you on a Friday afternoon...
- He was seen with a brown snake 24 hours earlier
- He has had a 24 hour history of progressive ataxia and
- Progressive increase in respiratory effort
BUT!
- PT/ APTT is NEGATIVE
- Snake Venom Detection Kit (SVDK) is NEGATIVE
- AND he is showing signs of respiratory fatigue...
AND
- His owners cannot afford mechanical ventilation...

ReadyVet is here to help!
Not only does ReadyVet provide guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of cases with snake envenomation, it guides you through all those GREY areas...
- How do you know you have given enough antivenom?
- When to give more?
- When to give Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP)?
- What to do when SVDK is negative?
AND
- it includes the VERY useful Scale Count Chart and Instruction (which you can never find when you need it!)

This patient needed High Flow Oxygen Therapy for 12 hours and improved with antivenom administraiton and supportive care.
He was happily discharged home to his owners within 48 hours!

Thank you ReadyVet! Saving time and improving patient outcomes...

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04/07/2023

Did you know that it's not the absolute value of the initial plasma lactate in dogs with GDV that is a prognostic indicator?

That's right! It's actually the REDUCTION in the plasma lactate following fluid resuscitation...

Certainly, studies have shown that survival is more likely when initial plasma lactate is 6mmol/L BUT if the plasma lactate reduces by > 40% following initial fluid resuscitation then it indicates a better chance of survival in these patients.

If plasma lactate does not reduce >40% despite fluid resuscitation, aggressive investigation should be pursued and in patients where hyperlactemia persisted > 24-48hrs, many did not survive.

Not only with ReadyVet help you to interpret the findings of blood gas analysis in these patients, it will also guide you through your fluid resuscitation efforts to stabilise these patients and improve their survival outcomes.

ReadyVet... Saving time and improving patient outcomes!

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26/06/2023

Fluids ARE a medication and we should start thinking of them like one! THANK YOU 🙌

We know that judicious fluids have many clinical applications but too many fluids are harmful and negatively impact patient outcomes.

SO let’s think of fluids like a drug and use a fluid plan calculator just like we use veterinary drug calculators!

ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator helps you to:
- Calculate any perfusion deficits
- Calculate % dehydration of your patient
- Create a tailored fluid plan that takes into account any comorbidities that your patient has, ongoing losses etc. ITS SO QUICK & EASY!

Fluids are like drugs so let’s use them strategically!

ReadyVet… saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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26/06/2023

Yes!

Fluids ARE a medication and we should start thinking of them like one!

We know that judicious fluids have many clinical applications but too many fluids are harmful and negatively impact patient outcomes.

SO let’s think of fluids like a drug and use a fluid plan calculator just like we use veterinary drug calculators!

ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator helps you to:
- Calculate any perfusion deficits
- Calculate % dehydration of your patient
- Create a tailored fluid plan that takes into account any comorbidities that your patient has, ongoing losses etc. ITS SO EASY!

Fluids are like drugs so let’s use them strategically!

ReadyVet… saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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19/06/2023

ReadyVet is so much MORE than a veterinary calculator… it is your clinical companion, in your pocket and with you for every shift!

ReadyVet give useful and up to date general treatment advice and recommendations including toxicity guidelines, causes, clinical signs, general treatment guidelines and recommendations for both veterinary professionals and pet owners.

Here, ReadyVet is being used to provide treatment guidelines for a patient who presented with tick paralysis caused by Ixodes holocyclus. Luckily this little patient was only mildly affected (2A), received tick antiserum and supportive care overnight and was discharged home to his overjoyed owners the next day.

ReadyVet is SO much more than a veterinary calculator, helping you to save time and improve patient outcomes!

Find it in the App Store or Google Play.

28/05/2023

When multiples of maintenance are not enough… well@said ! 🙌

Creating fluid plans are easy with …

Not only does the app step you through hydration and perfusion parameters, it helps to calculate these deficits for your patients!

Then it will work through maintenance and ongoing losses, creating a complete fluid plan for you in minutes… fluid plans are no longer difficult and the answers are at your fingertips.

ReasyVet: saving time and improving patient outcomes!

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07/05/2023

What looks like hypovolemic shock but is not?

What delays perfusion parameters but doesn't need volume resuscitation? In fact, fluids are the one thing that these patients DON'T need...

Cardiogenic Shock!

Cardiogenic shock results from inadequate cellular metabolism caused by cardiac dysfunction... The most common cause of systolic dysfunction is Dilated Cardiomyopathy but can also be severe MMVD or hypertrophic obstructive myopathy. The most common cause of diastolic dysfunction can be due to pericardial effusion & cardiac tamponade, HCM or tachyarrhythmias.

This little patient presented in severe cardiogenic shock and respiratory distress due to severe enlargement of his left and right atria due to HeartWorm disease!

He responded brilliantly to supplementary oxygen therapy, frusemide and pimobendan... he was discharged home 24 hours later to represent to his primary care vet for immiticide treatment.

As well as creating helpful fluid plans, ReadyVet helps is one step ahead and leads you through the contraindications of when NOT TO give fluids... saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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30/04/2023

Got Polytrauma? Take a breath... ReadyVet has got you covered!!

This poor puppy sustained severe wounds after being attacked by a big dog and presented collapsed and in severe hypovolemic shock and with wounds penetrating into the abdomen...

Don't panic... Polytrauma is as easy as ABC!
And it all comes down to oxygen delivery: DO2 = (Hb x SaO2 x 1.34)
A = make sure that you have a patent airway + provide supplemental oxygen
B = breathing
C = circulation! Treat shock to improve the oxygen carrying capacity of Hb!

ReadyVet not only quantitates the patient's shock but it then tells you how much fluid to give to correct this as well as guiding you through end-point resuscitation.

ReadyVet, saving time and improving patient outcomes!

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22/04/2023

Blood Gas Analysis holds the key to understanding what is happening in our patients...

This little patient hit our crash bench in severe hypovolemic shock with a 48hr history of Vomiting and Diarrhoea...

His blood gas says it all!
Using an advanced algorithm, ReadyVet can interpret these results quickly and easily for you, saving you valuable time to spend working on your patient instead:

Severe acidemia due to a mixed metabolic and respiratory acidosis... but the electrolytes give it away! Na: K = 12.62

I am an acute Addisonian crisis!

This little guy responded brilliantly to rapid stabilisation including Calcium Gluconate, Dextrose, Insulin and Sodium-corrected fluid resuscitation... And that's another headache that we CANT WAIT to solve for you!!

Electrolyte interpretation and Sodium correction calculator is coming soon...

ReadyVet, saving time and improving patient outcomes!

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09/04/2023

30/03/2023

Are you READY for EASTER?

ReadyVet makes calculating Chocolate Toxicities so EASY that everyone in the team can do it!

The Theobromine content varies with the type of chocolate (baking chocolate contains the most, mild chocolate contains the least), so depending on the type of chocolate that your patient has eaten, ReadyVet will calculate the severity of the intoxication and then provide you with Treatment guidelines and Recommendations!

No more having to look up the chocolate toxicity calculator... the answers are now at your fingertips!

Your Easter just got easier with ReadyVet!

ReadyVet... saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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21/03/2023

Has your patient eaten grapes?

Do you know the toxic dose?
What is the toxic compound?
What are treatment recommendations?

ReadyVet will calculate the toxic dose FOR YOU as well as provide treatment recommendations for your patient.

Your patients are in safe hands with ReadyVet!

ReadyVet... saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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16/03/2023

When fluid resuscitation doesn't work...

So you have given crystalloid boluses to your shock patient but they haven't worked... your patient hasn't improved and your perfusion parameters are still abnormal... so what next??

Remember that a full blood volume for dogs is 90ml/kg and cats are 60ml/kg... if your boluses are close to reaching half a blood volume (ie. 45ml/kg in dogs and 30ml/kg in cats) and your patient is still not responding...

- Consider cardiogenic shock: does your patient have jugular pulses or a heart murmur?
- Consider distributive shock ie. Anaphylaxis or Sepsis...
- Consider obstructive shock ie. GDV or pericardial effusion...
- Consider ongoing blood losses ie. Internal or external haemorrhage...

ReadyVet not only calculates half a blood volume for your patient, it ALSO remembers how much fluid you have given them and will warn you when you get close to half a blood volume - so you can focus on your patients and not on the maths!

ReadyVet... Saving time and improving patient outcomes!

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08/03/2023

We're all ears!!

We want to hear from YOU what you want to see for the ReadyVet App this year... what is going to save YOU time and improve YOUR patient outcomes?

We've been busy working in the background and have some exciting new calculators that are busy getting ready for development... but we need ONE more!! So far we have...
1. Sodium correction calculator... do calculations for Hyper and Hyponatremia hurt your brain? No longer! This calculator is going to be life saving... literally!

2. Constant Rate Infusion calculator... that's right! No more trying to figure out dilutions and CRI rates... this one has you covered :-)

3. Drugs... Drugs... and more drugs! Dose rates, dilutions, indications and contraindications... everything that you need to know and we'll do the maths for you!

4. ... And now we want you to tell us what YOU want! Electrolyte corrections (potassium/ glucose), Nutrition calculators, Modified Glasgow Coma Scores, Respiratory quotients... please tell us what you want to see happen in your app this year!

ReadyVet... Saving time and and improving patient outcomes!

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05/03/2023

Thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway competition and congratulations to our winner ! A beautiful new Littman stethoscope is on its way to you ❤️ Don’t forget to download the app even if you didn’t win… find it in Google Play and the App Store! ReadVet… saving you time and improving patient outcomes 🙌

15/02/2023

SHOCK – Part 4.

So you know that your patient is in shock… you’ve started fluid resuscitation… but how do you know when to STOP?

Repeated boluses of crystalloid/ colloid/ blood products administered intravenously will normalise Resuscitation end points by re-establishing depleted intravascular volume. After each bolus, the patient is reassessed for normalisation of end point resuscitation variables:

1. Normalisation of perfusion parameters:
- Mucous membrane colour: Pink
- Capillary refill time (CRT): 1-2 seconds
- Heart rate: Dogs 90-140bpm; Cats 180bpm
- Re**al temperature: > 37.5 oC
- Mentation: alert
- Pulse quality: SAP 100mmHg; MAP 70-80mmHg

If the patient’s perfusion parameters normalise, you can continue with maintenance/ replacement rates.
BUT: when they do NOT normalise… its time to STOP and reassess your patient…

2. When its not just hypovolemic shock…

If you have delivered >40-50ml/kg crystalloid boluses ie. half a blood volume for dogs and 20-30ml/kg in a cat and your resuscitation end points have not yet normalised… it is time to consider other causes of shock refractory to fluid resuscitation including:
• Septic shock.
• Cardiogenic shock.
• Uncontrolled haemorrhage.

The ReadyVet app not only keeps track of the total volume of your fluid boluses, it will warn you when you approach these and ask you to consider what else could be wrong with your patient to avoid the potentially harmful consequences of fluid overload as well as delaying further, potentially life-saving treatment.

Do you know what the leaky hose in the image represents?

ReadyVet… Saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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09/02/2023

We interrupt this series to say... there's something exciting happening soon!

Stay tuned... more updates appearing soon!

ReadyVet... saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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02/02/2023

SHOCK – Part 3

The indications WHEN to perform fluid resuscitation in shock patients is clear… but when are fluids NOT indicated in patients with shock?

The ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator app has got you covered – not only does it remind you to check that your patient does not have the existing comorbidities where fluid resuscitation is contraindicated, it provides helpful examples of what to use instead.

Does your patient have evidence of:
• Heart disease?
• Renal failure?
• A haemabdomen?
• Traumatic brain injury?
• A severe burn injury?
• Are they a large breed dog?

Patients with these co-morbidities require either hypotensive resuscitation/ limited volume or NO fluid resuscitation… and ReadyVet will calculate the volume of these treatments for a given patient weight as well as the total volume to give.

In our next post we will work through the final caveat of crystalloid fluid resuscitation… when do you STOP?

ReadyVet… Saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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25/01/2023

Thank you for using ReadyVet Calculator 🙌

What a naughty doggo!!

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19/01/2023

SHOCK – PART 2

Resuscitation End Points are early indicators of occult shock and can be used to guide resuscitation efforts.

Resuscitation End Points reflect adequate blood flow to vital organs. In our first post on SHOCK we discussed what deficits in Perfusion Parameters looked like for the different forms of shock.

‘Normalisation’ of these Perfusion Parameters indicates when you can stop shock fluid therapy and commence maintenance/ replacement fluid therapy.

Can you remember what ‘normal’ Resuscitation End Points are?
Resuscitation End Points:
1. Mucous Membrane colour: Pink
2. Capillary Refill Time (CRT): 1-2 seconds
3. Heart Rate:
- Dogs: 90 – 140 bpm (depending on size)
- Cats: 180 bpm
4. Re**al temperature: >37.5OC
5. Mentation: Alert
6. Pulse quality:
- Systolic Arterial Pressure (mmHg): 100mmHg
- Mean Arterial Pressure (mmHg): 70-80mmHg

How do we use Resuscitation End Points to guide our Fluid Resuscitation Therapy?
• Repeated boluses of crystalloid/ colloid/ blood products administered intravenously will normalise Resuscitation End Points by re-establishing depleted intravascular volume.
• After each bolus the patient is reassessed for End Point Resuscitation Variables.
• If the patient responds to End Point Resuscitation variables, then you can continue with maintenance/ replacement rates.

ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator will interpret the severity of change in your patient’s perfusion parameters and quantitate the severity of the shock to help guide your fluid resuscitation…

In our next post we will work through HOW to correct SHOCK using fluid resuscitation… and when NOT to!

ReadyVet… Saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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12/01/2023

SHOCK!

Can you remember the 4 different types of shock?
1. Hypovolemic:
Eg. Loss of water & electrolytes (Renal/ Gastrointestinal), Loss of blood
(Haemorrhage)

2. Distributive (Vasodilatory):
Eg. Anaphylaxis, Severe inflammation/ SIRS/ Sepsis, Neoplasia.

3. Cardiogenic (Reduced Cardiac Output):
Eg. Left sided heart failure: evidenced by tachypnoea, pulmonary oedema,
cyanosis
Right sided heart failure: evidenced by Jugular pulses, pleural effusion, ascites.

4. Obstructive (Impairment to blood flow):
Eg. GDV, pericardial effusion, pneumothorax.

Deficits in Perfusion parameter are suggestive of SHOCK.

Clinical signs of SHOCK include:
1. Mucous Membrane colour:
- Pale: Hypovolemic/ Cardiogenic/ Obstructive shock
- Injected pink/ red: Distributive shock

2. Capillary Refill Time (CRT):
- Delayed capillary refill time: Hypovolemic/ Cardiogenic/ Obstructive shock
- Rapid capillary refill time: Distributive shock.

3. Heart Rate: Tachycardia

4. Peripheral temperature: Cool/ Hypothermic

5. Mentation: Decreased

6. Pulse quality:
- Decreased: Hypovolemic/ Cardiogenic/ Obstructive shock
- Bounding pulses: Distributive shock.

ReadyVet Veterinary Calculator will not only interpret your patient’s perfusion parameters and tell you if your patient is in shock or not, it will quantitate the severity of the shock to help guide your fluid resuscitation…

In our next post we will work through the principles of correcting SHOCK using fluid resuscitation!

ReadyVet… Saving you time and improving patient outcomes!

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05/01/2023

There are some exciting projects happening in 2023!

#1. Sodium correction calculator...

Does correction of hyponatremia or hypernatremia give you a headache? We hear you & we've listened... Sodium correction calculator is next on our list to save time and improve patient outcomes!

ReadyVet... find it in the App Store or or Google Play.

Saving time and improving patient outcomes.

23/12/2022

On the 12th Day of Christmas, ReadyVet gave to me… 12 great ideas for 2023!

11 Garden Toxins
10 extra minutes in my day
9 Co-morbidities
8 Blood Gas parameters
7 Food Toxin calculators
6 Snake Envenomations
5 Toxins Categories…
4 Choc Tox concentrations
3 Handy calculators
2 Species reference ranges
And a Calculator for Fluid Therapy!

We want YOU to tell us what you want to see from ReadyVet in 2023!

Reply in the comments below by telling us what calculator you would like us to develop next 12 months… And if there is something that we haven’t thought of – we’d love to hear from you so please include your suggestions in the comments below!

1. Fluid Supplementation: Potassium, Glucose etc.
2. Drug Constant Rate Infusion Calculator
3. Nutrition and RER Calculator
4. Respiratory Quotient Calculator: A:a gradients etc.
5. Modified Glasgow Coma Score Calculator and Trend Analysis
6. Sodium Correction Calculator
7. General Drug Calculator – Antibiotics, Analgesia etc.
8. Blood Transfusion Calculator – pRBC/ whole blood/ FFP; how much to give, how fast etc.
9. CPR drug calculator
10. Unit conversion calculator
11. Donating a percentage of proceeds to a charity…
12. More giveaways!

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from ReadyVet! We look forward to working with you in 2023 😊

ReadyVet… saving time and improving patient outcomes… just in time for Christmas!

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