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PEDCRRT

professional discussion about continuous renal replacement therapy

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UCIP-NET

spanish language list for pediatric critical care

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PICU-PDA

for personal digital assistant use in pediatric critical care

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PEDTPT-L

pediatric and neonatal transport

LISTSERV@brownVM.brown.EDU

PEDINFO

peds informatics

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PEDTALK

general pediatrics

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PED-LUNG

pediatric pulmonology

majordomo@unixg.ubc.ca

ECLS-NET

extracorporeal life support

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iNO-l

inhaled nitric oxide

majordomo@lists.invivo.net

PAC

peds anesthesia discussion

MAILTO:pac@anaes.sickkids.on.ca

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PEDIATRIC-PAIN

pediatric pain topics

LISTSERV@is.dal.ca

Website: http://www.pediatric-pain.ca/ppml/ppmlist.html

NICU-NET

neonatology

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PCNurse

congenital heart disease nursing

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CONGENITALFORUM

pediatric congenital heart surgery (restricted to practicing surgeons)

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PEDNEFRO-L

peds nephrology (Czech)

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PEDNEPH: http://www.pedneph.org/

PEDNEPH: an international internet list for pediatric nephrology, urology and renal transplantation

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NEPHRO-RN

Nephrology and Transplantation

majordomo@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca

CHILD-NEURO

peds neurology

mailserv@waisman.wisc.edu

PED-EM-L

peds emergency medicine

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RC_WORLD

respiratory care

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CCM-L

adult critical care

majordomo@list.pitt.edu

ACCRI-L

anesthesia/critical care resources

listserv@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu

ANEST-L

adult anesthesiology

listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

ANESTHESIOLOGY

another adult anesthesiology list

listproc@gasnet.med.nyu.edu

NEUROMON-L

neuromonitoring

listproc@usc.edu

PEDSURG-L

peds surgery

majordomo@umdnj.edu

MEDTRIAL

randomized control trials

listserv@galen.imw.lublin.pl

Pedi-Rd

pediatric nutrition

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ANPACC

advanced practice nursing, pediatric acute/critical care

LISTSERV@lists.upenn.edu

MedSrch

locating medical information for personal or professional use

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU

From Internet Scout Project at University of Wisconsin

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WWW sites

Pediatric Specific Sites

• eMedicine Pediatrics, a free online textbook of pediatrics. An extensive growing table of contents and a variety of online calculators. From eMedicine.com
• Anesthesia and Critical Care articles, a section of PediatricLinx, a MDLinx news site.
• GeneralPediatrics.com; a succinct index site for pediatric health care.
• wwwSLACK: Pediatric Internet Directory
• PediatricRadiology.com; a comprehensive source of pediatric imaging resources
• Neonatology on the Web (extensive teaching file links and literature citations!)
• International Pediatric Chat: the web site describing live "chat" for pediatricians on the Internet. Wednesdays at 13:30 (EST) has been set aside for pediatric intensivists.
• Pediatric Anesthesia (Hospital for Sick Children)
• PEDINFO: An Index of the Pediatric Internet
• Harriet Lane Links; an extensive list from Johns Hopkins
• Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
• American Academy of Pediatrics, includes
  • Policy Statements
  • Using the Internet for Pediatric Advocacy - A Resource Guide, from Pediatric Internet Resources
  • The Pediatric Internet, by Andy Spooner (Pediatrics 1996; 98: 1185-1192)
  • The Section on Critical Care
• American Board of Pediatrics
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Pediatric Surgery Update
• Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
• Emory's MedWeb Pediatrics
• ISABEL; a online pediatric differential diagnosis tool, with APLS protocols and other guidelines, from the ISABEL Medical Charity, UK. (available with free registration by health care professionals only)

General Medical Sites

• Community of Science; "a collaborative network of scientists and their institutions" - see membership information for individuals or institutions
• US Government Sponsored Sites
  • healthfinder; the US Government's gateway to health resources on the net
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases, part of Center for Disease Control
  • US Consumer Product Safety Gopher
  • Food and Drug Administration, their Pediatric section; also now with MedWatch; The FDA Medical Products Reporting Program
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
  • National Library of Medicine
  • Social Statistics Briefing Room, The White House
• Dermatlas; extensive, searchable collection of dermatology and histology images, from Johns Hopkins.
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines on the web. Compiled by Peter Sam. UCSF
• Medical Computing Today; articles and links on clinical systems, education, the Internet, more
• Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics; extensive lists of links on topics from Bacteria to Therapeutics, from Karolinska Institute Library
• Neurosciences on the Internet
• Frontiers in Bioscience: a journal, a library, and more
• Physician's Choice, with ratings and descriptions
• Virtual Hospital
• Healthlinks.net: a directory of selected health-related sites ($)
• Yahoo Medicine
• MedConnect (CME and cases)
  • Now with the Internet Journal of Pediatrics (free registration required)
• Medical Matrix: Internet Health Resources (excellent!) (free registration required)
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Managed Care Forum
• Medscape (free but registration required)
• Reuter's Heath Information Service
• Doctor to Doctor: International opportunities in medical education
• On-Line Doctor Finder, from the American Medical Association

Critical Care/Emergency Medicine/Anesthesia Sites

• European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)
• Critical Care Nutrition
• Critical Care Society of Southern Africa
• PRETx: Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics. A database of drugs in emergency medicine and critical illness in children with links to original research and succinct reviews.
• Emergency Medical Services for Children, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• www.ucip.net; Spanish resources in Pediatric Intensive Care
• Critical Care Network; website and mail list, in Japanese
• IntensiveCare.com; a website under development supporting effective clinical practice in the ICU. Includes an Online Tutorial of Clinical Epidemiology for Effective Clinical Practice
• American Thoracic Society
• European Intensive Care Society
• American College of Chest Physicians
• Anestcadiz: The European (Spain) Website of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
• Emergency Medicine; an evolving online textbook of emergency medicine. From Emedicine, Boston Publishing Co.
• The Completely Different Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal. Literature commentaries, case reports. Fisher J.
• Emergency Medicine BBS: toxicology cases, code simulator, and more
  • Now with a PALS simulator
• ToxFAQ's: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Trauma Moulages at Trauma.org: practice interactive trauma resuscitations
• Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine on the Internet
• Anesthesia/Critical Care Resources on the Internet (ACCRI)
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Nursing Section
  • Pediatric Section
• GASNet with
  • An online journal: Educational Synopses in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
  • and the Global Textbook of Anesthesiology
  • The Electronic Phrasebook; Italian, German, Spanish, Hebrew to English medical phrases
• The Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook

Pediatric Nursing and Critical Care Nursing Sites

• Society of Critical Care Medicine's Nursing Section
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses
• Critical Care Web
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• American Nurses Association
• Emergency Nurses Association
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners
• NP central: information for and about nurse practitioners
• Society of Pediatric Nurses
• Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
• Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing
• American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
• American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
• Association of Nurses in AIDS care

Child Health and Advocacy Resources

• Emergency Medical Services for Children; a comprehensive resource from this Health Resources and Services Administration supported initiative
• The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
• Kid's Campaign
• Doctors Without Borders: 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Winner! (story on CNN)
• Children's Defense Fund
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• UNICEF
• Consortium for Health and Human Rights
• Children's Environmental Health Network
• Child Welfare League of America
• World Health Organization
• Child Abuse Referral and Education Network; from The Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

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Medical Journals on the Web

• Electronic Journal Index Sites:
  • FreeMedicalJournals.com, a compliation of links to freely available, full-text biomedical journals. From AMEDEO.
  • Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals, from Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia
  • Electronic journal services from the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine; an example of listings of electronic journals and services available to individuals and institutions
  • Full Text Electronic Journals, a list with links to publishers' sites and "third parties," e.g., Ovid. From Duke University Medical Center Library.
  • Highwire Press' list of free full-text journals, associated trial periods and when back issues become freely available of the journals they manage.
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center Research Medical Library; another alphabetical list
  • MedWeb: Electronic Journals and Newsletters: another extensive listing
  • PediatricLinx.com - an automated journal browser for pediatric articles
  • "Third party" sites; fee-based or site license access to multiple journals from:
    • Ovid Online
    • MD Consult
    • ScienceDirect

• Pediatrics Journals
  The Archives of Diseases of Childhood; full-text through July, 1999
  • Pediatrics Electronic Pages: full-text web publication from the American Academy of Pediatrics - now includes full-text of the print version for AAP members
    • Also see their Collections page, listing articles by topic
  • The Journal of Pediatrics (contents with abstracts)
  • Infectious Diseases in Children
  • Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
  • Contemporary Pediatrics; full-text review articles free registration required with PDR.net
  • Journal Watch Pediatrics

• Anesthesia/Critical Care Journals
  • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - the first peer-reviewed scientific journal for our specialty is now online with full-text. Dr. Patrick Kochanek is the editor of PCCM and can be contacted at pccm@sccm.org
  • Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
  • Italian Internet Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia
  • Critical Care, a BioMed Central journal, with full-text freely available online
  • Critical Care Rounds, from the Canadian Critical Care Society; free full-text, extensive single-topic issues.
  • Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Update in Anesthesia
  • Thorax
  • Anesthesiology
  • Anesthesia and Analgesia
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Intensive Care Medicine (table of contents; articles by subscription)
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Anesthesia OnLine
  • Also consider PubMed's Journal Browser to view the contents (citations with abstracts as available) of the following journals directly:
    • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    • Critical Care Medicine
    • Intensive Care Medicine
  • AMEDEO: Medical Literature Guide: Critical and Intensive Care; a free service to track new articles in selected journals relevant to critical and intensive care.

• General Medical/Surgical Journals
  AHRQ Web M & M; peer-reviewed, online medical journal highlighting patient safety lessons drawn from real cases of medical errors
  • Virtual Mentor, an AMA online ethics journal
  • JAMIA - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • The Lancet
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal (now all full-text!)
  • Medicine and Global Survival
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery on the Web
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Science
  • The Scientist
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Postgraduate Medicine; full-text review articles
  • Neuroscience-Net (an entirely online journal)
  • Scientific American
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • ACP Journal Club
  • Medical Education Online
  • The New England Journal of Medicine (contents, abstracts, letters)
    • The New England Journal of Medicine announces their new website, and now allows free access to articles after 6 months of original publication, consistent with the call from The Public Library of Science initiative.
  • The Medical Journal of Australia is conducting an online peer review experiment
  • British Medical Journal (now with complete full-text access)
    • Including the comprehensive Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners
    • And full-text Collected Resources, such as in Adult and Pediatric Critical Care
  • AnesthesiaWeb; news, literature and guideline reviews, and "ask the experts" (free registration required)
  • MMWR
  • Nature and Nature Medicine
  • JAMA
  • Health Services Research
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Computing Today
  • Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences
  • Journal of Post-Graduate Medicine; free full-text

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Other notable search engines and medical metasites:

• MEDLINE and medical searching:
  • SUMSearch is a new "meta-search" engine for evidence-based medicine resources. It searches multiple online databases and returns a customized list - that can be further refined - of retrievable documents. From the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • PubMed now has a new interface,from The National Center for Biotechnology Information and The National Library of Medicine, enables free searching of Medline and pre-Medline documents, with links to electronically available publications. Includes:
    • Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters
    • Journal Browser, to view the contents (citations and abstracts as available) of journals
    • Medline Plus; a service of The National Library of Medicine geared towards helping the public find reliable sources of information about health and disease.
    • The older interface to PubMed is here,
    • Also see a list of Medline and Related Resources
    • Also see the PubMed Online Tutorial to learn the new interface, from the University of Florida Health Science Libraries
  • MDChoice: UltraWeb search returns only from "hand picked" sites
  • CiteLine; focused search tool of pre-evaluated sites
  • Medical World Search; an excellent tool with plain language searching (server status in question...)
  • HealthAtoZ, a medical web site search engine (consumer oriented)
  • Infotrieve: Medline searching and document delivery ($)
  • Guides for Locating Internet Resources, from University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System
  • The UK's OMNI has an excellent search engine of health and medical websites
  • Scirus, a web search engine specific for scientific content, from Elsevier Science/Science Direct.
  • Comparison of Health Information Megasites. Anderson PF et al.

• General searching:
  • The search engine that makes you say "whoa...": http://www.kartoo.com/
  • Netscape; offers choices of many engines
  • Google.com
  • HotBot
  • Yahoo (includes email and phone searching)
  • Webcrawler
  • Lycos
  • Excite
  • Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting, a self-guided course, by A. Elkordy. The Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop
  • All 4 One MetaSearch: searches up to 8 other search engines for you.

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Last Updated: 2007-11-06 09:10:49