Electrolyte Correction Calculator
In Medicine, correcting electrolyte imbalance due to various causes most commonly, excessive vomitting and diarrhea remains a challenge as this often requires a long and easy to forget mathematical calculation. With this app, my aim is to automate this process to allow health care practitioners spend less time doing uncomfortable calculations and more time saving lives.
The live site can be viewed here https://electrolyte-calculator.netlify.app/
- Calculates Daily Maintenance for Sodium(Na+) and Potassium(K+).
- Calculates Daily deficit for Sodium(Na+) and Potassium(K+).
- Calculates Total electrolyte replacement for Sodium(Na+) and Potassium(K+).
- Exception handing with Javascript to prevent electrolyte overload.
- HTML
- Vanilla CSS
- Materialise CSS
- Javascript
Please note the following very important information:
- For K+ correction: Do not exceed more than 40mmol in 1L IVF and not more than 20mmol in 500mls IVF which runs over 6-8hrs.
- For adults, the ceiling dose is not more than 200mmol of K+ daily while for children, not more than 100mmol of K+ daily.
- For Na+ correction: The expected Na+ should not exceed more than 12mmol above the observed value.
This tool is provided for educational and informational purposes only. While i hope you find it useful to you as a healthcare professional, it is in no way intended to serve as a diagnostic service or platform, to provide certainty with respect to a diagnosis, or to otherwise substitute for the clinical judgment of a qualified healthcare professional.
Yahaya Kehinde 2020.