Reminder: Dynamed access ceases Tuesday, December 31st.

Due to budget constraints, Tulane access to Dynamed ends Tuesday, December 31st. This includes access to Dynamed content in the Skyscape mobile app for Android and iOS.

TU provides clinical point of care resources through: First Consult, Micromedex, Procedures Consult, VisualDx, AccessMedicine, and Clinical Key.

UptoDate will continue to be available both on campus and through Meditech.

For a complete list see the Matas Library Clinical Portal:  http://libguides.tulane.edu/Tools

Contact medref@tulane.edu if you have any questions.

New book spotlight: Management of Severe Malaria: A Practical Handbook

Added to the Matas library collection in December 2013, Management of Severe Malaria: A Practical Handbook is a publication of the World Health Organization that aims to assist health care practitioners in the treatment of severe and complicated malaria.

Included in this handbook are guidelines for treating severe and complicated malaria. These guidelines are broken down into 7 sections:

• Diagnosis
• General Management and Nursin
• Children
• Adults
• Pregnancy
• Prognostic Indicators
• Common Errors

Also included are 9 annexes with the following information:

• Selected further readings
• Members of the review committee for the handbook
• Performing and interpreting rapid diagnostic tests
• Notes on antimalarial drugs
• Coma scales
• Setting up an intra-osseous infusion for children
• Measuring jugular venous pressure
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Calculating volumes of maintenance fluids and blood transfusions 

Check out this book, and other new additions to our collection, on the  New Books book cart in the Commons area of the library.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients; Giving Feedback

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for December 18th: Blood Pressure Reduction on Death and Major Disability in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke are now available:  http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4471145

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for December 19th: A Little Feedback on Your Feedback: Using the new ACGME Milestones to coach learners are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519356

Matas Library Winter Holiday Hours

Matas Library hours for the winter holiday:

Monday, December 16: Open 8am-9pm

Tuesday, December 17- Friday, December 20: Close at 5pm

Saturday, December 21-Wednesday, January 1, 2014: Closed

Thursday, January 2- Friday, January 3: Open 8am-6pm

Saturday, January 4- Sunday, January 5: Closed

Monday, January 6: Open for Regular Hours (8am-9pm)

The 24/7 area will be available as usual.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: stem cell transplants in sickle cell disease; update on pulmonary embolism

 References from Medicine Ground Rounds for December 11th: Update in Pulmonary Embolism are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4471145

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for December 12th: Non-oncologic indications for stem cell transplant in children are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519356

RefWorks Group Code Changes

Good news RefWorks users!

The RefWords Group Code is no longer needed after Monday, December 9th, 2013.

What this means to you:

• Current RefWorks users, simply log in to your RefWorks account - removal of the group code will not affect how you normally log in.
• New RefWorks users must be on-campus or (accessing RefWorks through off-campus login) when creating an account.
• Write n Cite 4 users: the need for a group code to log into WNC4 will be removed in an upcoming release. Until then, users will log in with WNC4 using the current method. 
• WNC III users (old version) still needs group code, login name and password. 

For questions email medref@tulane.edu.

More information available at: 

http://refworkscommunity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/update-refworks-group-code

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: larks, owls, and global health

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for December 4th: Global Health are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4471145

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for December 5th: Pediatric Sleeping Disorders are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519356

Project Tycho™: Data for health

Announcing Project Tycho™, a web site which provides open access to newly digitized and integrated data from the entire 125 years history of United States weekly nationally notifiable disease surveillance data since 1888. Read all about it:

The goal of Project Tycho™ is to aid scientists and public health officials in the eradication of deadly and devastating diseases. A recent NEJM article, documents how the Project Tycho team digitized and made public all weekly surveillance reports of nationally notifiable diseases for U.S. cities and states published between 1888 and 2011. The project derived a quantitative history of disease reduction in the United States over the past century, focusing particularly on the effect of vaccination programs.

Reference

van Panhuis WG, Grefenstette J, Jung SY, Chok NS, Cross A, Eng H, et al. Contagious diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present.N.Engl.J.Med. 2013 Nov 28;369(22):2152-2158.

About Project Tycho

In the United States, cases of contagious diseases have been reported at weekly intervals to health authorities for more than a century, but these data have not been publicly available in a computable format, so their use and value have been limited. The University of Pittsburgh has released a collection of surveillance reports about diseases in the United States going back 125 years. "The researchers obtained all weekly notifiable disease surveillance tables published between 1888 and 2013 - approximately 6,500 tables - in various historical reports, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. These tables were available only in paper format or as PDF scans in online repositories that could not be read by computers and had to be hand-entered. With an estimated 200 million keystrokes, the data - including death counts, reporting locations, time periods and diseases - were digitized. A total of 56 diseases were reported for at least some period of time during the 125-year time span, with no single disease reported continuously."

Dynamed access ceases Tuesday, December 31st

Due to budget constraints, Tulane access to Dynamed ends Tuesday, December 31st. This includes access to Dynamed content in the Skyscape mobile app for Android and iOS.

TU provides clinical point of care resources through: First Consult, Micromedex, Procedures Consult, VisualDx, AccessMedicine, and Clinical Key.

UptoDate will continue to be available both on campus and through Meditech.
For a complete list see the Matas Library Clinical Portal: http://libguides.tulane.edu/Tools


Contact medref@tulane.edu if you have any questions.