Patent ID: 6978286

Claim:
A portable medical calculator for automatically calculating a medication dose and comparing an inputted, ordered medication dosage with a known medication dosage range in a database, comprising: a display screen for prompting and receiving certain inputs, receiving entered data, receiving answers to medical questions, displaying various selections for selection, displaying various units of measure, displaying calculations and displaying warning messages; memory operatively connected to the display screen for receiving and comparing the inputted, ordered medication dosage with the known medication dosage range; a computing mechanism operatively connected to the memory and the display screen, the computing mechanism; responsive to the inputs, data, answers, selections and unit of measures at the display screen to cause the memory to provide the medication dose; responsive to the inputted, ordered medication dosage to cause the memory to compare the inputted, ordered medication dosage with the known medication dosage range; responsive to the comparison to cause the memory to provide the warning messages to the display screen when the inputted, ordered medication dosage is outside the known medication dosage range; and responsive to the warning messages to cause the memory to request additional data via the display screen to correct the inputted, ordered medication dosage or continue without correction of the inputted, ordered medication dosage when the warning messages are activated.