Check out the new AccessMedicine (Tulane now has unlimited users!)

AccessMedicine has a new look with the same great content!   Books are now available with unlimited access.  

 Harrison's Online features the complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18e, but in a convenient online format.

Harrison's Online Features
- Lecture notes: including PowerPoint presentations
- Grand rounds: from experts around the field
- Emergency medicine photo gallery: Selected cases from the Atlas of Emergency Medicine
- Podcasts: featuring practice updates
- Self-Assessment: over 1,000 questions
- Videos: view basic medical procedures

Mobile spotlight: Plague, Inc.

Interested in infectious disease epidemiology? Love movies like Contagion? Ready to be responsible for a plague that decimates the world population and leads to the collapse of human civilization?

From the iTunes App Store:

Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.

Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!

As the creator of your plague, select an outbreak site, pick out some modes of transmission, a few symptoms, and a couple of mutation abilities, then monitor the development of your disease (and the demise of mankind). But make sure you watch out for the development of a cure- the game ends once everyone is dead from your plague or a cure is found!

Available from the iTunes app store for iPhone and iPad for $0.99. Also available from Google Play for Android.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Hyponatremia, The Lost Art of Intubation

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for January 8, 2014: Hyponatremia: Strategies for the Identification, Assessment and Logical Treatment of Hyponatremia in the Hospital Setting are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4535345

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for January 9, 2014: NRP: The Lost Art of Intubation are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519372

Interested in evidence-based healthcare?

Are you interested in evidence-based healthcare (EBH)? If so, check out Students 4 Best Evidence, a growing network of students around the world who are interested in learning more about EBH. Student contributors pull together resources on EBH in an interactive space where you can search for information and meet other students who are interested in EBH.

To find out more about Students 4 Best Evidence, start here!

Featured e-book: Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 12th ed. (Katzung)

Looking for a book to help review for pharmacology? Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology is available online through AccessMedicine.

One easy way to access this e-book is to go to the Matas library webpage* and search for Basic and Clinical Pharmacology in our catalog. Click the link at the top of the record and you will go straight to the e-book in AccessMedicine.

Another way to find this e-book is to go to the Resources tab on the Matas library webpage*, select AccessMedicine, select the Textbooks tab, and search for Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.

*If you are not at a library computer, use the Off-Campus Login in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to sign-in to our site.

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.