Palmacokinetics

1. Introduction

Palmacokinetics is a pharmacokinetic simulation program running on a Palm handheld. Estimation of blood or effect site (ie brain) concentration of intravenous anesthetics by simulation provides valuable information for conducting anesthesia with such agents. An anesthesiologist had to use a desktop or a laptop PC, which may sometimes be bulky for use in an operating room, for running such simulation in the past. Now with Palmacokinetics, handheld simulation is possible.

2. How to use

I have not completed writing instruction manuals in English. But, you will find 'How to use' section in a file named 'Readme_E.txt', which is included in the download archive.

3. Download latest version (Ver 0.98)

for Windows (84KB, self-decompressing executable file)

for Windows (22KB, zip file)

for Macintosh (22KB, sit file)

4. From the author

You can use this version of Palmacokinetics freely for clinical practice, education, or any other purpose. However, if you are going to use Palmacokinetics for research purpose, I would request you to consult me before starting your research. In case of neglect of this request, name(s) of the corresponding user(s) may be listed on my website as unmannerly user(s). I would also expect insertion of a phrase such like, "... Palmacokinetics is developed by Osamu Uchida, M.D., and available from his web site http://homepage1.nifty.com/o-uchida/palmacokinetics/ ..."in your paper, if you publish your research by the use of Palmacokinetics.