Wow. There’s an Android app to help veterinarians determine the severity of the coma in which they have found a small animal. Finally Arrowhead Collector has met its match in the super-niche stakes!
Here’s the description of the tool, in which the makers themselves are rather dismissive of the app’s actual usefulness:
“This application calculates the small animal coma scale which is an adaption of the Glasgow coma scale used in human medicine. Disclaimer: All calculations must be confirmed. The authors make no claims of the accuracy of the information contained herein; these suggested outcomes are not a substitute for clinical judgment”
And here’s what it looks like, seeing as you almost certainly will not EVER be downloading it:
We suppose Small Animal Coma Scale COULD come in useful if you were to stumble across a dog that looks a bit dazed and may be in a coma and you wanted to reassure the owner as to the severity of the coma, but how often does that situation actually crop up?
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stan
/ April 29, 2010Lol very good.
Andy Shores, DVM, MS, PhD
/ May 4, 2010The Small Animal Coma Scale (SACS) App is designed to display the coma scale with the opportunity for ER and Neurology/Neurosurgery veterinarians to record data pertaining to their patient’s condition. The SACS was developed by me in the late 1980s and was initially validated through statistical analysis of my own head trauma cases. Since then the SACS has been validated by several independent studies. WHAT IS UNIQUE about this particular app is it actually serves as a method of collecting data on head trauma patients world wide. Essentially, after the veterinarian “scores” the patient on admission, he/she has the opportunity to submit this info via e-mail and is assigned a case number. This generates a follow-up email that asks for and then records the outcome of the patient. In using this system, we are afforded a world-wide data base to confirm the usefulness of the scale. As far as I know, it is the only multi-center study of its kind and should be very helpful in the future, giving the veterinarians a excellent way of determining the prognosis of head trauma patients. It is very helpful to the owners when they have a better understanding of survival for their canine and feline companions.
Gary C
/ May 5, 2010Calm down, Andy, we’re only having a bit of a laugh.