Essential Health Links: Emergency Medicine and Trauma


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Best BETs
Best Practice Guidelines on Emergency Surgical Care in Disaster Situations
Emergency Medicine: an Online Medical Reference
Emergency Nutrition Network
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care: e-learning tool kit
PubMed -Free Fulltext Articles on Trauma
Trauma ImageBank
Trauma.org
WHO: Health Action in Crises
World Wide Wounds

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Best BETs
This site aims to provide evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions. BETs has a focus on emergency medicine, but also covers questions in cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics. The site is maintained by the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. http://www.bestbets.org/

Best Practice Guidelines on Emergency Surgical Care in Disaster Situations  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This lengthy pdf file contains guidelines condensed from the WHO manual 'Surgical Care at the District Hospital'. The topics include antibiotic treatment, sterilization, waste management, laceration and wound management, amputations, upper and lower extremity injuries, and printable 'best practice protocols' for numerous emergency/disaster situations. http://www.who.int/surgery/en/ESC_in_disasters.pdf
Emergency Medicine: an Online Medical Reference
This comprehensive resource includes a detailed table of contents, search engine, and bibliographies. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/
Emergency Nutrition Network  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Emergency Nutrition Network provides an online newsletter, 'Field Exchange', and a range of free online publications including 'Key guidelines for nutrition in emergencies'. The Network has its secretariat in Ireland and serves a global membership of NGOs and other organizations connected with nutrition. http://www.ennonline.net/
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
This organization has spent 25 years caring for the health and mental needs of survivors of mass violence and torture through a combined practice of clinical experience and medical research. The site contains information about the program, its projects, research and clinical methodology. The organization is based at the Harvard University, School of Public Health, U.S. http://hprt-cambridge.org/
Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care: e-learning tool kit (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This tool kit contains a series of pdf files that provide guidance on emergency and essential emergency care in trauma, obstetrics and anaesthesia at first-level health facilities. Topics covered include best practices for clinical procedures safety, guidelines on emergency surgical care in disasters, essential emergency equipment list including anaesthesia, surgical care at the district hospital, training for emergency surgical skills, and needs assessment at resource-limited health care facilities. http://www.who.int/surgery/publications/imeesc/en/index.html
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Trauma (38000+)
This PubMed search will identify all trauma related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22injuries%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20%28%22wounds%20and%20injuries%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22wounds%20and%20injuries%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20trauma%5BText%20Word%5D%29
Trauma ImageBank
This site is a collection of trauma images. It is accessed by broad subject categories (eg. prehospital care, neurotrauma, spine, wounds and burns) with images freely available for use by all. The site is maintained by Trauma.org, a UK based non-profit organization. http://www.trauma.org/index.php?/main/images/
Trauma.org
Trauma.org aims to disseminate knowledge of trauma care throughout the world. The site includes educational materials, original articles, and an image database of trauma images that can be downloaded for educational use. Users can join the email discussion list 'trauma-list' that has over 1650 members worldwide. http://www.trauma.org
WHO: Health Action in Crises  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains up-to-date information on the impact of wars and natural disasters on health throughout the world. It includes technical preparedness guides that contain topical public health information, emergency manuals and health and education tools. The site includes information specific to individual regions and countries. is http://www.who.int/hac/en/

World Wide Wounds
World Wide Wounds is a peer-reviewed e-journal for dressing materials and practical wound management information. The home page is divided into subject areas: acute wounds, diabetic feet, dressings and bandages, larval therapy, leg ulcers, and pressure sores. It also includes a keyword search engine. The site is published by the Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory, U.S. http://www.worldwidewounds.com/

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Updated: 29 February 2008