INASP Links & Resources INASP HEALTH LINKS: Specific Health ResourcesEmergency Medicine, Trauma and Poisoning
Emergency Medicine The summarizes treatment for fifteen different emergency room procedures. This resource is part of the University of Iowa, U.S., Family Practice Handbook, a site that is intended for U.S. physicians with significant resources.http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/familymedicine/FPHandbook/02.html
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 Medicine Bulletin Board The Bulletin Board provides educational resources for Emergency and Primary Care physicians and health care providers. It includes collections of clinical photographs, radiographs, electrocardiograms, and lectures. http://embbs.com/
Emergency Nutrition Network 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/
Hyper-Tox Web and Palm-Tox: Poison Information This site provides a linked list of ingested substances and exposures with a concise summary of treatment, complications, investigations and clinical effects. It is designed for emergency ward management, and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of clinical toxicology. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ouad/index.html
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Poisoning This chapter of the Merck Manual provides useful clinical information on poisoning and bites and stings plus links to related topics in the Manual. The site includes a keyword search engine. http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section23/sec23.htm
PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Trauma (11500+) 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. ‘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
TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network TOXNET provides access to several databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It contains sophisticated search engines to all the databases. The site is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, U.S., through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program. http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
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/imagebank/imagebank.html
Traumabank Traumabank contains a series of links to trauma sites plus a keyword search engine. The goal of the site is to promote and disseminate the knowledge and practice of injury prevention and trauma care throughout the world. http://www.trauma.org/traumabank.html
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: Emergency and Humanitarian ActionThis 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/disasters/
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