The Orthodose® app was born in 2010 out of the need for palliative care practitioners to simplify the calculation of opioid rescue doses.
Created and developed by a doctor specialising in palliative care, Orthodose® software has proven to be an innovative and effective tool for healthcare professionals.
Our platform contains valuable information on palliative medicine and makes all this information easy to access.
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Opioid Switcher is used to calculate equianalgesic doses for the different opioids used in palliative care. The oral, subcutaneous, intravenous, and transdermal administration routes are all covered.
An opioid rescue dose, also called a breakthrough dose, is an additional dose of analgesics administered preferably to patients with cancer in the event of an attack of paroxysmal pain.
When oral administration is impossible, the subcutaneous route is then often used in palliative care. Sub-Cut offers you a list of compatible medications.
Mix&Match lets you check whether or not it is possible to use a particular combination of drugs in the same syringe. It is common practice in palliative care to administer treatment by means of a continuous infusion pump.
It is not customary to substitute one Benzodiazepine (BDZ) treatment for another. However, sometimes it happens that we are obliged to do this, particularly when switching from the oral to the subcutaneous and intravenous administration routes.
Corticodose, the corticosteroid converter included in the Orthodose® app allows you to compare the mineralocorticoid potency of most glucocorticoids used in palliative care, such as for example methylprednisolone and dexamethasone.