Medicina d’Emergenza Diagnosi e trattamento
Brown A.F.T., Cadogan M.D.
La quinta edizione di questo manuale, un vero successo internazionale, è stata completamente aggiornata ed ampliata, con l’intento di includere le più recenti linee guida basate sull’evidenza in medicina di urgenza e di emergenza. Il testo segue un approccio standard, chiaro e ben organizzato, concepito per esaltare la [...]
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I have trialled many social bookmarking sites in an attempt to find the best solution to read, bookmark and share online resources. To date I have been most impressed with Diigo, Delicious and StumbleUpon as bookmark storing and sharing platforms. Recent interactions on Twitter with @allergynotes and @symtym and @DrCris have led to forays into [...]
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Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources.
Mednar is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, public library staff, [...]
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Yottalook is free radiology-centric web search engine and was designed to provide the practicing radiologists with the most important and relevant information at the time of patient care. The search engine is based on natural query analysis, semantic ontology and ranking algorithms powered by iVirtuoso. The thesaurus of medical terminologies is supported by the Radiology Society of North [...]
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Box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri)
The box jellyfish is found in tropical Australian waters. Most stings are benign and respond to supportive measures. Severe envenoming has been associated with at least 67 deaths in Australia, the last 12 being children. All deaths occur within 5 minutes of the sting, probably secondary to direct cardiac toxicity.
Toxin
The specific venom [...]
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Health Sciences Online (HSO) has launched claiming to be a ‘virtual learning center’ which aims to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge using the search technology of Vivisimo. HSO (www.hso.info) is a portal with browse and search functions with access to a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, [...]
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Posted in education, envenomation, toxinology on Dec 18th, 2008
Irukandji Syndrome (Carukia Barnesi)
Irukandji syndrome is a distressing envenoming secondary to the sting of Carukia barnesi and other, as yet unidentified, jellyfish found in coastal waters of tropical Australia. It has also been reported in Hawaii, the Caribbean, Asia and Papua New Guinea. In a small number of cases, life‑threatening hypertension and pulmonary oedema may [...]
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Congratulations to Anthony (Tony) F T Brown on his new appointment as the first Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Queensland, School of Medicine. Professor Brown shares his evidence based critical care lecture series with the wider medical community through this blog.
Prof Anthony F.T. Brown (MB ChB, FRCP, FRCS(Ed), FACEM, FCEM) is a senior [...]
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Posted in education on Dec 18th, 2008
HEAVIEST ELEMENT KNOWN TO SCIENCE DISCOVERED
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are [...]
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An Australian doctor says he has created the world’s healthiest wine, which cleans your blood vessels and reduces the risk of heart attack as you drink it. Dr Philip Norrie, a Sydney GP and former wine-maker has produced a wine with 100 times the amount of resveratrol, the antioxidant credited with giving wine its health giving [...]
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