BURNS
www.Ameriburn.org
The American Burn Association has a decent resource
area,
with searchablility and information on burns
CLEFT PALATE
www.widesmiles.org
Cleft Palate information.
.www.mdconsult.com
COSMETIC SURGERY
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/MedicalSurgery.html#PLASTIC
This is a "VIRTUAL HOSPITAL" it has incredible resources, including this plastic
surgery site that links to all sorts of tutorials, procedures and the like. WOW
www.plasticsurgery.org
A totally comprehensive guide to plastic surgery and its issues. highly recommended.
Here is a neat plastic surgeon in Australia's web site, on rhinoplasty (nose jobs)
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~oknoses/
EDUCATION
www.patienteducation.com
A comercial site of medical reference and information. Not bad.
ETHICS
http://www.PSR.org
This is the Physicians for Social Responsiblity site. They won the Nobel Peace Prize in
the 80's for their work against nuclear war. Now they have expanded their mission,
world health, gun control, environmental issues, and access to health care. It is a great
group, and doing wonderful work. They have a virtual activism page that helps send letters
to your politicians etc. They are getting 15,000 hits a week now.
Here is a bioethics site like no other and he has digital postcards !
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak5/igm/g47/Bauer.htm
http://www.quackwatch.com/
This site is an exhaustive list of information on health fraud and abuse, and
includes good and bad information on the ways "alternative medicine" can help
and harm people. I think that everyone should check it out, and evaluate the
treatments they are getting.
EMERGENCY CARE
Here is a great links page tuned into
internet Emergency Medicine resources,
lots of links to information on Medicine in general.
http://www.ha.org.hk/pyneh/aed/links.html
FREE SPEECH
The
feminists for free speech are at
www.well.com/user//freedom
GALLERY
http://www.medslides.com/
An archive of slide presentation lectures on continuing medical
education topics and clinical studies. A title is "Emerging Concepts
in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation".
HAND SURGERY
Eatonhand.com
A hand surgery site with lots of technical and
general information
PRACTICE GUIDELINES
http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/pick?collect=ahcpr&dbName=0&cc=1&t=888782230
This site provides reference to what are know as Clinical Practice Guidelines,
standards of care developed by health professionals to identify the most
acceptable treatment plans for a variety of conditions. Use this to test the
care you are giving, or as a practitioner, to self evaluate your practice. Not
all conditions have CPG 's developed yet, and more are being accepted every
week.
PRESSURE SORES
http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ahcpr/put/www/putc1.html
Pressure sores, a common problem in the ill, the elderly and in individuals with serious
neurologic impairment, is given comprehensive treatment in this site.
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SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASES
1998 Guidelines for Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/rr4701.html
Up to date recommendations for the treatment of genital herpes, pelvic
inflammatory disease, and genital warts. PDF format. Centers for
Disease Control.
SKIN CANCER
http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/cmm/16-10.html
SMOKING
Dr Petro wants you to check out Joe Cherney's http://www.smokescreen.org/ page and activities.
Cherney is a very involved anti-tobacco worker and his page is a model of how the web can
be used for political action.
Also these related pages.
http://www.ha.org.hk/pyneh/aed/links.html
This page has the CDC information on tobacco cessation. It is a terrific page
for those thinking about quitting, those wanting to help others quit, and for
those wanting information on tobacco and health. Tobacco smoking is one ot
the commonest causes of complications in plastic surgery, and should be part
of every physicians discussions with their patients.
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VIRTUAL
HOSPITAL
http://www.vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/
This is a Virtual Hospital, with multimedia tutorials, references and textbooks. Its worth
a visit.
WOUND MANAGEMENT
http://www/smith.co.uk/World-Wide-Wounds/
This site gives access to full text articles from one fo the peer reviewed wound care
journals. Lots of differentclinical and basic science information. They also offer a
mailing list that sends information on recent articles,new developements, etc.
http://www.ibcusa.com
A wound healing site, lists conferences, meetings etc. This is a commercial site that
specializes in promoting the newest wound healing products. While many of them are
worthwhile, many are also not significantly better than older cheaper methods. But people
like the newest and the most unique so this is a good reference site.
http://www.woundcarenet.com
This is a site for professional research on wound care. Lots of information in a peer
reviewed format.
http://www.smith.co.uk/World-Wide-Wounds/1998/february/Larvae-Case-Study-
Malignan-Wounds.html
The Maggot link
htp://www.leechesusa.com
this is the site for the company that provides medical leeches in the United States.
Hirudo medicinalis is proper name of the leech used to decongest tissue. The most common
indication is for replanted digits when the veins are too small to allow proper egress of
blood. The leech isapplied every 5 or 6 hours for a day or more until the body has created
enough alternate venous chanels that congestion doesn't occur. This technique was used
recently - leeches were applied for almost 10 days to save the little finger of a
two year old child. the finger was accidentally amputated at the hand level in a bike
accident.The finger took nicely.
http://www.ivldigital.com/curative/overview/2_0idx.htm
This is a
detailed guide to medical wound management.
Wound healing is an important part of plastic surgery practice.About 5
million people in the US have chronic wounds.Information is crucial to keep patients
from being the victims of charlatans. http://wizard.pharm.wayne.edu/woundsoc/PUB.HTM
The Wound Healing Society.
In order to maintain communication with it's membership and to accomplish
its stated goals, The Wound Healing Society currently publishes a newsletter
and journal.
Scars & Stripes is the bi-annual newsletter of the Society, distributed to all
members. This newsletter serves to keep the membership abreast of the activities
of the Society's different committees, as well as provide general
information of interest. The newsletter is edited by H. Paul Ehrlich, Ph.D.
and co-edited by Robert F. Diegelmann, Ph.D.
Comments and items you would like considered for inclusion in the newsletter should
be sent to either of these individuals.
Wound Repair and
Regeneration is the official journal of
the Wound Healing Society. This quarterly Journal publishes original scientific and/or
clinical papers on the broadly defined topics of wound healing and tissue regeneration.
The Journal is also the official journal of the European Tissue Repair Society, the
Japanese Society for Wound Healing, and the Australian Wound Management Association. For a
complete description of the journal and a wide variety of information including indices of
past issues, visit the Wound Repair and Regeneration web site.
"World Wide Wounds" the Electronic
Journal of Wound Management
publishes advances in wound Care
http://www.hyperbaric.com/wounds.htm
This site has pictures of wounds and shows the benefits of HBO treatment.
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SEARCH
http://www.NYAM.org
THis is the site of the New York Academy of Medicine THey have a fantastic medical
library, real, not virtual, and run continuing education meetings many of which are open
to the public, in the areas of Urban Health, Addiction Medicine, Public Health, History of
Medicine. They also have exhibits, and are located in a historic building on 5th Avenue
and 93rd street.
http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp
This is a huge site referencing health sites on the internet. It is edited by Gary Malet,
MD who has been running it for several years and seems to do nothing else full time. It
offers subject specific indexing, is easy to use, free and absolutely incredible in it's
completelness. Plus, he personally checks the provenance of the sites so that there are no
false claims type sites. A great reference place.
http://medscape.com/
This is a commercial medical information network, good information, lots of ads but not
too annoying, and they index health news, have text book references handy, etc.
An Introduction to Cyberspace for Medical Professionals*
http://world.std.com/~hylinked/mednet/fulltext.html
A well-referenced, hyperlinked review of the development, current
status, and future possibilities of the Internet in medicine.
http://www.medmatrix.org/Index.asp
This is an extensive listing of medical information on the
internet, is peer reviewed and very comprehensive.very detailed and very well organized.
http://www.mwsearch.com/
Internet Disease Resources Search
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
A searchable collection of medical librarian selected briefs on
disease conditions. The collection is directed to lay persons,
health care professionals and researchers. Karolinska Institute Library.
Internet Diseases Resources Alphabetic Listing is found at the same address,
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
An A to Z collection of medical librarian selected briefs on disease
conditions. Also By the Karolinska Institute Library.
GPN Reuters Healthcare News Archive Search
http://www.gpnet.com/HealthcareNewsSearch.html
A searchable collection of health and medicine news articles from
Reuters news service. Global Physician Network.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
This is the access point for the National Library of Medicine and the source of medline.
This can give you up to date medical references, and has two different search engines,
Grateful Med or Web Pub Med. Both are rather sophisticated and don't allow full text
access to the artlices, although if you get a liscence number from you r local library,
you can order, for a fee, the full text. This is designed more for the heallth
professional than for the general public, but is open access tothe bulk of the worlds peer
reviewed medical literature.
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