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Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Image Collections

Image Collections: 

HEAL - Health Education Assets Library

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners

HON - Health on the Net Information

HONmedia is an unique repository of over 6'800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web.

Image Bank

The Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy, ImageBank consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes.

Knowledge Weavers Project

The Knowlege Weavers project includes Animations, Interactive Cases, Image Banks and Collections, Tutorials, and Tools and Templates

Public Health Image Library

Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures

MDConsult - Images

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Medline

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine�s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the preclinical sciences, health administration, and the health care system. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

Cochrane Library

A source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

CINAHL

Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences,education, and consumer health

Web of Knowledge

ISI Web of Knowledge is a platform for searching individual ISI products or multiple products simultaneously. Access is to Web of Science, Current Contents Connect and ISI Journal Citation Reports....

EMBASE.com

EMBASE.com provides access to biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic records from EMBASE and MEDLINE (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine). The database can be searched by field, drug, disease and article. Journal titles can also be browsed.

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to 1953 and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

Stat!-ref

Combines medical reference books and journals with indexing tools, and search and retrieval software to deliver cross-searchable electronic

MD Consult

MD Consult integrates peer-reviewed resources from over 50 publishers, medical societies, and government agencies. It includes medical texts, journals, peer-reviewed guidelines and patient handouts

Journals

Journals: 

AACN clinical issues in critical care nursing resource

The American journal of emergency medicine resource

Anaesthesia and intensive care medicine resource

Annals of emergency medicine

Critical care clinics

Critical care medicine - highly ranked critical care journal

Intensive and critical care nursing resource

Intensive care medicine - a highly ranked critical care journal

Journal of critical care resource

UQ Emergency Medicine journals - a list of emergency medicine journals held by the UQ Library

UQ Intensive Care Medicine journals - a list of intensive care medicine and nurisng journals held at UQ Library

UQ Critical Care Medicine journals - a list of critical care medicine and nursing journals held at UQ Library

Statistics

Statistics: 

AIHW - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Bureau of Statistics - Health

Internet sites for Medical and Health statistics

Statistics Australia

World Health Organisation (WHO) - Health Statistics

Web Sites

Web Sites: 

ACEM - Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

CICM - College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand

ACCCN - Australian College of Critical Care Nursing

CoNNO - Coalition of National Nursing Organisations.

The Coalition of National Nursing Organisations (CoNNO) is made up of more than 50 national nursing organisations in an alliance to work collectively to advance the nursing profession to improve health care.

ACEN - Australian College of Emergency Nursing