WETFLAG Checker - Instructions

What is it?

I have written a basic tool that calculates emergency paediatric drug doses using weight calculations based on age and the WETFLAG mnemonic.

Quick Links

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Some important points about the app

• Use at at your own risk - please ensure you also do your own calculations and refer to the latest resuscitation guidelines
• This app is devleoped by myself; I have no connection to the ALSG and I make no claims that it is up to date to their latest guidelines
• This script uses the 2010 ALSG APLS Formulas to calculate weight from age namely
• 0-12 months: (0.5 x age) + 4  
• 1 - 5 years: (2 x age) + 8  
• 6 - 12 years: (3 x age ) + 7
• The WETFLAG values are derived from 2010 APLS values
• For ages above 12 years or for weights above 44kg the values for the WETFAG formula are based on the reuscitation council's paediatric emergency sheet
• For ages in months above 12 months, this script always rounds down to the nearest year and then calculates weight; therefore a child of 23 months is assumed to be 1 year of age
•  If weight is used as an input, ET size and length is not calculated
• ET size is calculated raw to decimal place and not to the nearest 0.5

HTML App
Available here

Built Using

HTML5, PhoneGap (Android), JQuery, JQuery Mobile

Developed By 

MD Marikar, East of England Paediatric Trainee
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This work by Dilshad Marikar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.