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Few Websites Websites on the Emergency Radiology / Medicine
1.
Finding-the-Path is essentially a "Problem-based guide to diagnostic imaging
strategies in the Emergency Room". This website is authored by Azmoun, Aliabadi,
and Holman, from the Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Medical School and is available at http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/education/online/ftp/FTP.html
Created for Emergency room physicians and trainees, Radiology residents the material
is covered principally under Index Of Cases and Algorithms. The essence of this
webpage is choosing correctly from a complex set of imaging modalities in an emergency
scenario.
2. ICU Chest Radiology at http://www.med.virginia.edu/med-ed/rad/chest/
is a valuable website that covers the important but neglected area of ICU Radiology.
The website deals with Xray techniques, describes the normal ICU series, focuses
on lines and tubes, describes air in the chest and fluid in the chest and discusses
lung processes.
3. Radiology Case in Pediatric Emergency
Medicine, from the University of Hawaii is available at http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pemxray/pemxray.html
The material is principally in the form of fully prepared and worked up radiology
cases in Paediatric Emergency. Edited by Loren G. Yamamoto, Alson S. Inaba, Robert
M. DiMauro, from the Kapiolani Medical Center for women and children, University
of Hawaii the free viewable/downloadable software has six volumes each with 20
diverse and distinct cases. Incidentally the seventh is nearing completion.
4.
Emergency Xray of the week
is accessible from National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics at
http://ncemi.org/ NCEMI
is "an Emergency Medicine institute dedicated to the advancement of emergency
medicine through information technologies". The websection on ED Academic focuses
on resources for emergency medicine and general medical research and education.
The ED Quiz is an interesting section wherein one can participate and test the
knowledge in emergency medicine. There is a link to emergency textbooks, too.
A large list of nearly 100 Medical E-Tools is available in the form of algorithms,
calculators, decision rules, diagrams, scores and tables
5. eMedicine
Quick Reference at http://www.emedicine.com/quickref.shtml
is a handy quick reference. The site has a compilation of "Tools" and the "J.A.D.E.
Abstract Update Service". "Tools" consists of material such as algorithms, calculators,
decision rules, diagrams, scores, search tools, and tables that can that help
in management of emergencies. To illustrate, the section on calculators has material
on blood alcohol concentration, body mass index, celsius to fahrenheit conversion
and vice versa, predicted endotracheal tube size for age, pregnancy calculator,
electrolyte estimators and acid-base disturbance graph etc.
6. Emergency
Department Management of Pediatric Head Trauma at http://www.pediatric-emergency.com/headtrauma.htm
covers Head Trauma comprehensively. The didactic material comprises epidemiology
of head trauma, assessment of children with acute head injury, assessment of the
risk of intracranial injury in acute head injury, diagnostic accuracy of physical
exam in children with intracranial injury,. disposition of the ct-negative patient,.
special situations and controversies, intracranial injury, management of intracranial
injury.
7. Emergency management of Head Injuries from http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0500/education/140.html
is a basic primer by Kevin Turner, Adam Jones, and Ashok Handa offering a guide
to dealing with patients who have head injuries. Interesting titles includes Skull
x ray films - who needs them?, Indications for computed tomography scanning,
8. EMedHome at http://emedhome.com/
is another educative site launched in 2000. The mission of the site is mission
"is to provide a user-friendly resource that is designed to be the premier educational
website for emergency physicians". This site has useful features such as a featured
article, clinical cases and clinical pearls. There are other sections such as
Ultrasound , Discussion Boards and Database Resources. Besides MedLine Search
is also possible from this site. The sections on Calculators hosts a variety of
Protocols, Algorithms, Sample Orders, and Guidelines.
9. Emergency
Medicine Textbook at http://www.emedicine.com
is an online, multiauthored clinical textbook, displaying chapters on topics like
dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology and pediatrics. A different team of
authors writes each chapter and a quiz appears at the end. A wide range of emergency
medicine topics is available such as emergency medical systems, legal aspects
of emergency medicine; managing the emergency department; organisations in emergency
medicine; special aspects of emergency medicine including foreign and missionary
emergency medicine
10. EMBBS or Emergency Medicine Bulletin
Board System at http://www.embbs.com/
is a website with the primary goal "to enhance communication between physicians
and to develop a medium that brings the benefits of computer technology to emergency
and primary care physicians". Created in 1994, the site has rich educative material
including a Medical Photograph Library supporting photographs and ECG's, a Radiology
Library which facilitates viewing and downloading hundreds of images, a CT Scan
Library, as well. Other useful sections include pediatric emergency medicine topics,
electrocardiogram of the month, ECG file room and toxicology corner.
Endpiece:
Radiology
Decision Making is an interesting and engrossing section from American Association
of Family Physician. The topics related to Emergency Radiology featured in this
section includes Cervical spine radiographs in the trauma patient by Mark
Graber and Mary Kathol at http://www.aafp.org/afp/990115ap/331.html
Recognizing spinal cord emergencies by Daisy Arce and Pamela Sass at http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010815/631.html
Pitfalls in the Radiologic Evaluation of Extremity Trauma by Christine
Shearman and Georges Y El-khoury available as Upper Extremity at http://www.aafp.org/afp/980301ap/shearman.html
and Lower Extremity at http://www.aafp.org/afp/980315ap/shearman.html
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