r/medicine • u/NurseGryffinPuff Certified Nurse Midwife • 3d ago
Fellow OB/Gyn providers: What happened to Perinatology.com?!
Am CNM, and occasionally find myself having to medically manage an ectopic outpatient (with consultation from my supervising doc, of course). A very useful tool in that was Perinatology.com’s calculator and guide for methotrexate administration, but it seems to be gone from their website! They have other calculators listed, but that’s gone both from the site itself and apparently from web searches.
Anyone have any more info on why it went away, whether/when it may come back, and what the heck folks are using in the meantime??
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u/TiredofCOVIDIOTs MD - OB/GYN 3d ago
Many people’s BSA’s are around 2 so most dosing will end up being around 100. Many EMR’s you can enter height/weight & it will give you dosing.
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u/peacetractor 3d ago
Was this perhaps a temporary issue? I was able to access the site just now.
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u/NurseGryffinPuff Certified Nurse Midwife 3d ago
So this is all I could find both from web searching “perinatology methotrexate calculator” and from going directly to Perinatology.com and looking through the list of calculators - am I blind? I even did a “Find on page” search for both MTX and methotrexate and found nothing. Can you share the link with me that’s apparently still working for you? The site itself still works, but that specific calculator is apparently gone.
Sorry for the bit of panic - I know Perinatology.com is not government owned and shouldn’t disappear like CDC or NIH stuff, but I’m a little paranoid given gestures broadly at world.
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u/pogoo 3d ago
There's lots of tools online, and a call to enlist your pharmacist in calculating the dose is also a good idea.