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Re: OB: Pregnancy 'wheels' From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Fri Jul 15 19:31:49 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Don Miller: "Re: Pregnancy 'wheels'" Previous message: Seele, Mona: "Re: Pregnancy 'wheels'" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "OB: Pregnancy 'wheels'" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: OB: Pregnancy 'wheels'" I use Pregwheel, a freeware program for PDA's that use the Palm OS. If you ask a few people you will find someone who can beam it to you, or you can download it here: http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/iusmpda/content/view/48/2/ I like Pregwheel because I don't have to worry about misprinted wheels or ones with a loose hub (or the fact that it's getting harder and harder to count those tiny lines now that I'm over 50). I have seen wheels that can be off by as much as 3 or 4 days from each other. My partner and I stick with pregwheel and our dates always agree with each other. The only thing pregwheel won't allow you to do is to input a gestational age on a specific reference date (as from an ultrasound report) and get a due date off of it. I keep a wheel in my desk drawer for when I'm reading U/S reports, and check the date on Pregwheel once I get it. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: > >I have always carried a "wheel" or pregnancy calculator in my shirt >pocket. For years, various companies have made plastic ones (Ritodrine >had great ones) out of plastic, 3.5 inches in diameter, that would >easily fit in my shirt pocket and hold up well. After Ritodrine, Ortho >made them, but I had to cut them off of a rectangular piece of plastic >to make a round wheel. Now, my last one has finally worn out (cracked) >and all I can find are larger ones, or a metal Ortho-Tricyclen one which >is the right size but heavy. > >Has anyone seen plastic ones? I have a cardboard one for a promo we give >to paitents, but it is pretty flimsy. > >Garry > >-- >Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >Private Practice >Roswell, GA > Next message: Don Miller: "Re: Pregnancy 'wheels'" Previous message: Seele, Mona: "Re: Pregnancy 'wheels'" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "OB: Pregnancy 'wheels'" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: OB: Pregnancy 'wheels'"

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