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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
Pocket Book of Obstetric, Neonatal and Pediatric Emergencies Including Trauma (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The ‘pocket book’ was developed by Childhealth
Advocacy International, a UK based non-governmental
institution in collaboration with the Government of the
Gambia and WHO, the Gambia. The principal sections include
Basic life support, Advanced life support, Management of
cardiac arrest, Serious injuries in pregnancy, Post operative
management for mothers, Burn injuries in children and in
pregnancy and Structured approach to the seriously ill. It is
a downloadable PDF file that is over 3 MB in size and would
take time to download but contains valuable information.
http://www.caiuk.org/projects/downloads/Pocket-Book_ESS-EMCH.pdf
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.
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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