The AgileBloodGas application was developed as an acid/base status calculator. The most time consuming part of developing this application was some of the error checking and equation entry. The paper used as a basis for the equations was Morganroth, M. 1990. Six steps to acid-base analysis: Clinical applications. The Journal of Critical Illness 5:460-469.
. This is an excellent paper to read for anyone who deals with arterial blood gases on a regular basis.
One major improvement that can be made to this application yet is an on-screen method of data entry, rather than needing to flip out the keyboard. This will hopefully be solved either with a future application update from us or a soft keyboard in a future Android release.
In addition, we hope to incorporate this into a larger medical calculator at some point in the future to make it more applicable to a wider range of audiences, rather than having a specific application for each individual equation.