LHL Resource of the Month

Cardiosource Plus: June Resource of the Month

From the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Cardiosource Plus for Institutions is an online resource for cardiovascular and heart-related information.

Features of Cardiosource Plus include:

• Clinical trial summaries which can be downloaded to PDA or Smartphone
• Practice guidelines and standards
• Case studies
• Clinical images, more than 4,500 images that can be used in educational presentations and lectures
• Full text access to the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), JACC Imaging, and JACC Interventions
• CardioSmart, patient education resources from the ACC
• Heart Songs 2, cardiac auscultation sounds
• Self assessment programs on general cardiology, heart failure, arrhythmias, and more
• CME/CE credit

Access Cardiosource Plus from the Databases & Resources page.  Please note that an individual registration is required.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the HUB, give us a call (205-934-2230), or send us an email or chat.

images.MD: May Resource of the Month

images.MD contains more than 70,000 clinical images on topics such as:

• echocardiography
• fungal infections
• neuro-ophthalmology
• pulmonary medicine
• vascular disease

Images range from original artworks and photographs to diagrams, tables, and radiographs.  Each image is accompanied by explanatory text.

Use the drop-down menus at the bottom of the page to begin your search. You can search by collection or specialty like allergy, infectious disease, or rheumatology.   You can also use the Quick Search box at the top right.

By signing in as a registered user, you can save images to your own personalized slidesets.  This allows you to edit or delete the accompanying text, email images, and use them in PowerPoint presentations, lectures, etc.

Supervised and updated by Tufts Medical Center, images.MD has more than 2000 contributors, including several from UAB.

R2 Digital Library: April Resource of the Month

The R2 Digital Library is a collection of health sciences e-books such as 501 Human Diseases, Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, and Essentials of Medical Terminology.

You can see a list of all titles in the collection or you can view a list of the books within a specific discipline such as Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health.  You can also browse the A-Z topic list or A-Z drug index.

R2 also offers a free PDA download for MobilePDR.  Click here for more information.

Important features of the R2 Digital Library include:

• integrates with Blackboard and Angel.  Faculty have access to reserve list functionality, which enables the creation of reading lists for students.
• all artwork, including tables, graphs, charts, illustrations and photographs may be used for educational purposes, enabling artwork to be utilized in the classroom, PowerPoint presentations, and papers.
• links out to AccessMedicine; this is a seamless link and will enable students to perform searches in these databases.

Take a look at the tutorial for more information on using the R2 Digital Library and how to personalize your results.

Access the R2 Digital Library from the Databases & Resources page.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the HUB, give us a call (205-934-2230), or send us an email or chat.

Stop by the Reference department for your R2 post-it pad.

Databases & Resources Page: March Resource of the Month

Looking for a database or resource?  Check out the Databases & Resources page where we list all of the library’s databases and resources in an A-Z list.  The list also provides a description, access information such as Blazer ID & password required for off campus access, and helpful links such as tutorials and tip sheets.

You can use the search box on the page or browse the list by subject or category.  If you know the name of the resource you need, you can also click on the first letter of the name or scroll down the list.  If you just want to see what resources we have for a specific category–like Optometry or Public Health–choose that category from the drop down box.  Categories include Nutrition, Protocols, Drugs, EBM, and many more.

Please note that this page is not where you should go to find articles. This is only a list of the databases and resources–searching this list does not actually search the database!  If you’re looking for an article on palliative care nursing, for example, you would use the search box to search for “nursing” or use the drop down box to select the nursing category.  This will give you a list of all of the library’s databases and resources that have information related to nursing.

For more help on selecting a database, see the tutorial on Finding the BEST Database for Your Topic: Using the LHL Databases and Resources Page.

*Please note: Remote access to the databases and resources listed on this page requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the HUB, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

New Search Tool: Februrary Resource of the Month

LHL recently made a new search option available.  From this one box, you can now search the library’s and UAB’s Web sites, the catalog, e-journals, PubMed, and Google Scholar.

Need to know if we have a particular book or journal?  Just click on those tabs to search the catalog or e-journals list.  Need to search PubMed?  Choose the PubMed and run your search.   Not sure where to search?  Get started with the library Web site tab.

The search box can be found at the top right of the LHL homepage and by clicking on “Search” in the footer of every library Web page.

Let us know what you think of this new search tool.

VisualDx: January Resource of the Month

VisualDx is a clinical decision-making resource designed to help clinicians make differential diagnoses.  VisualDx has over 17,000 images and more than 900 diagnoses, including diseases, drug reactions, and infections.  When physicians enter patient symptoms and clinical findings, VisualDx builds the differential diagnosis based on the findings entered.  The Differential Diagnosis search is divided into modules:

Once a module is selected, you can enter information about visual findings, body location, and key findings.  In addition, you can select “All Findings” to enter information on:

The text for each diagnosis includes:

In addition to building a differential diagnosis, you can find information on a known diagnosis using the “Look Up a Diagnosis” search.

For more information on VisualDx, see the product tour or help.  Access VisualDx from the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

2008, Year in Review: December Resource of the Month

Since 2004, Lister Hill Library has highlighted one resource each month.  This year we featured:

• TOXNET
• Virtual New Bookshelf
• Online Tutorials
• Current Protocols
• Florence Nightingale Letters
• PubMed Single Citation Matcher
• Essential Evidence Plus
• Library FAQs
• Anatomy.TV
• AccessSurgery
• UpToDate

Do you have an idea of a topic to highlight as a Resource of the Month?  Is there a resource you’d like to know more about?

Post a comment on the blog and let us know!

If you’d like more information or need help with any of these resources, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us a chat.

UpToDate: November Resource of the Month

UpToDate, licensed and funded by the UAB Health System, is an evidence-based clinical information tool that contains more than 76,000 pages of peer-reviewed text, graphics, calculators, links to MEDLINE abstracts, more than 254,000 references, a drug database, and free patient information resources.  The UpToDate editors review more than 400 journals to provide evidence-based information.  More than 7,400 topics in 13 specialties are covered in UpToDate which also includes treatment recommendations based on the best medical evidence.  Specialties include:

• adult primary care and internal medicine
• cardiovascular medicine
• endocrinology and diabetes
• family medicine
• gastroenterology and hepatology
• hematology
• infectious diseases
• nephrology and hypertension
• obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health
• oncology
• pediatrics
• pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine
• rheumatology

Clinicians can use UpToDate on the Web, their desktop computer, or a PDA.  View a demo of UpToDate here.  Be sure to check out the user manual as well.

*Please note: UpToDate is only accessible from computers in UAB facilities that are connected to the UAB network or through the medical staff intranet site.  The current CD-ROM version is also available on one standalone computer in the library.

Access UpToDate from the “Databases & Resources” page.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.  For technical support, please contact the HSIS Help Desk at 205-934-8888.

AccessSurgery: October Resource of the Month

AccessSurgery is an integrated, online surgical education resource that puts content into context.  It has resources on core topics like:

• acute care surgery
• endocrine surgery
• surgical oncology
• cardiothoracic surgery
• orthopedics
• neurosurgery
• gastrointestinal surgery
• vascular surgery
• head & neck
• urology
• gynecology
• plastic & reconstructive surgery
• pediatric surgery
• transplantation

Components of AccessSurgery include:

• videos & animations of basic skills and procedures & operations like
  • airway management
  • patient assessment
  • wound healing
  • patient & equipment safety
• textbooks such as
  • Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review
  • Trauma
  • Maingot’s Abdominal Operations
  • Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice
  • Principles of Critical Care
  • Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy
  • Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations
• board review test materials
• drug information
• differential diagnosis information

You can also customize your curriculum with AccessSurgery, organized around the ACGME’s mandate for a general surgery.  See a demo of AccessSurgery here.

Each month, the AccessSurgery Blog highlights updates to content and features and also “provides a forum for surgical residents and practicing surgeons to debate and share information on the latest advances in the field.”

Get to AccessSurgery via the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

Anatomy.TV: September Resource of the Month

Update:  Anatomy.TV is no longer provided by STAT!Ref.  See the Databases & Resources page for more information.

Provided by STAT!Ref, Anatomy.TV is advertised as “the world’s most detailed 3D model of human anatomy online.”

Using Anantomy.TV, you can

• zoom, rotate, and peel away layers
• watch live-action movies and animations
• view MRI images, x-rays, clinical slides, and dissection videos
• use images and videos in your presentations and patient handouts
• read explanatory text, take quizzes, and answer multiple choice questions

Components of Anatomy.TV include:

• Interactive Head and Neck
• Interactive Shoulder
• Interactive Spine
• Interactive Hip
• Interactive Thorax and Abdomen
• Interactive Pelvis and Perineum
• Interactive Knee
• Interactive Foot
• Interactive Hand
• Interactive Functional Anatomy

A tutorial on using Anatomy.TV is located here.

Access Anatomy.TV via the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.