Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chylothorax in a Neonate

View my collection, "Chylothorax" from NCBI

PubMed Tip: If you would like to search for a term like 'Chylothorax' but you do not want to view citations about 'congenital chylothorax' you may enter your search as 'Chylothorax NOT congenital'. Adding the Boolean term NOT will help elimnate unwanted terms in a search. Make sure to capitalize all the letters in NOT as PubMed recognizes AND, OR and NOT as Boolean search terms otherwise they may be eliminated as stop word in a search string.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Today was a breakfast from the usual morning report process. Therefore, without a morning report presentation to post, I would like to share with you a different resource that can be found in JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association. I learned about this series from Dr. Kristine Campbell. The resource is a series of brief articles that have been titled 'Users' Guides to the Medical Literature'. These users' guides were developed to provide tools for clinicians to search for and evaluate the medical literature to solve real patient problems. If you would like to learn more you may start with the editorial on the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. Intermountain has full-text online access to JAMA from 1998 to the present. Currently there is not remote access for Intermountain, however the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah does have remote access.

Once you view the collection below in PubMed you may order the articles by title to view them in the order they were published.

View my collection, "JAMA Users' Guides to Medical Literature" from NCBI

Monday, January 11, 2010

The sources of lead exposure may surprise you...
  • Ceramics
  • Paint
  • Jewelry
  • Stained Glass
  • Make-up (foundation/lipstick)
  • Candy from MX
  • Canned goods

Lead Free Kids, Lead Safe Housing Program

View my collection, "Lead Exposure" from NCBI

Monday, January 4, 2010

Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

A typical platelet count in a healthy person is between 150,000 and 450,000 per microliter of blood; you have a child that comes in with a platelet count of 5... Something seems drastically wrong with that picture.

View my collection, "ITP" from NCBI