Thrombosis vs CALIPER App

The Thrombosis Canada mobile app is your on-the-go resource for up-to-date clinical tools and practice guidelines related to thrombosis management. Built for healthcare professionals, this app offers quick access to: - Clinical Tools: Interactive tools designed to help with diagnosis, treatment, and risk assessment in managing patients with thrombosis. - Clinical Guides: Comprehensive guidelines from Thrombosis Canada covering various thrombosis conditions, treatments, and best practices. - Patient Resources: A wide range of materials including documents and videos, that can be shared with patients to educate them. Key Features: Whether you’re in the clinic, hospital, or consulting remotely, the Thrombosis Canada app ensures you have critical information at your fingertips. - User-Friendly Interface: Navigate easily through tools and guidelines with a simple and intuitive layout. Designed to be robust, yet concise enough to be applicable at the point of care. - Regular Updates: Always stay current with the latest guidelines and evidence-based practices. - Offline Access: Use clinical guides even without an internet connection. - Tailored for Healthcare Professionals: Developed voluntarily by Thrombosis CanadaTM members, internationally recognized as experts and peer reviewed by Thrombosis Canada committee. - Credibility: Reviewed for applicability to primary care by members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and these were not supported financially by any external funders.

The CALIPER App has been developed for paediatricians, family physicians, other healthcare workers, as well as parents worldwide. It is a user friendly and easy tool to assess a child’s laboratory test results using the latest reference value database developed based on values in healthy children and adolescents. Quickly and easily compare individual laboratory test results to a database of normal values (reference intervals) covering more than 100 tests routinely performed to assess children with various medical concerns. The CALIPER database has been validated and published in international medical journals and accepted worldwide as the most up to date reference resource available anywhere. Reference intervals represent the range of values that healthy, normal individuals are expected to display for various laboratory tests. When a patient’s results fall outside of this expected range, this alerts physicians and laboratory professionals to the need for follow-up testing and can signal that changes to treatment or monitoring are required. The reference intervals included in this application were determined as part of the Canadian Laboratory Initiative for Pediatric Reference Intervals (CALIPER) at the Hospital for Sick Children, an ongoing nation-wide study of normal values in paediatric lab results. Until recently, only outdated or inaccurate values were available for many paediatric lab tests. CALIPER provides reference intervals that reflect the influence of the rapid developmental and hormonal changes occurring during childhood. All reference intervals reported here were developed using the most up-to-date laboratory testing equipment available from Abbott Diagnostics. To use the app, simply select the test of interest, enter an individual’s results, and select their sex and age from the drop-down menu. An output will display how these results relate to CALIPER reference database, allowing for efficient and easy comparison. With your phone at hand, you will never be without this simple, portable tool for evaluating lab tests results on the go. For a complete list of tests available as part of this application, or for additional support, please visit the CALIPER website.