The general-medicine bench

Clinical calculators.

General-medicine calculators with the interpretation layer built in. Every tool pairs the score with the decision it feeds — the threshold, the trial behind it, and where it touches neurovascular practice — and is reviewed by Zaka Ahmed, MD. Stroke-specific scores live under Clinical Tools.

Educational use only

These calculators support learning and bedside discussion. They do not replace clinical judgment, institutional protocols, or emergency care.

§ 01 · Renal, hepatic & dosing

The numbers doses are built on.

Child-Pugh Score

Cirrhosis classes A–C, with the anticoagulation-in-liver-disease panel.

§ 02 · VTE & thrombosis

Clot risk, sized honestly.

Khorana Score

Chemotherapy VTE risk and the AVERT/CASSINI prophylaxis threshold.

§ 03 · Cardiopulmonary & critical care

Severity at the bedside.

HEART Score

Chest-pain MACE risk with disposition bands.

qSOFA

The bedside sepsis flag, with the honest 2021-guideline caveats.

CURB-65

Pneumonia severity, with the aspiration-after-stroke frame.

§ 04 · Screening & assessment

The questions worth asking.

PHQ-9

Depression screening with the post-stroke lens and item-9 safety handling.

GAD-7

Anxiety screening, fear-of-recurrence included.

§ 05 · Neurology-adjacent

Where medicine meets the brain.

SeLECT 2.0

Post-stroke epilepsy risk, and why it changes counseling rather than prescriptions.

EDSS

The MS disability scale, with the mRS comparison stroke readers want.

Pediatric NIHSS

The validated 2–18 adaptation, scored with the task modifications inline.

§ 06 · General

The everyday numbers.

Looking for NIHSS, ASPECTS, ICH score, or CHA₂DS₂-VASc? Those live with the stroke suite under Clinical Tools. Something missing that would help your workflow? Suggest a calculator.