Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitationA French randomised controlled trial found that offering family members the opportunity to observe when a close relative receives cardiopulmonary resuscitation has a positive effect on family members’ psychological outcome. Men’s health interventions in football clubsA programme of men’s health interventions delivered in football clubs may lead to improvements in healthy […]

Trial access to these concise ebooks is now available until 31st January 2014.  Medical subjects include Anaesthetics Clinical Medicine, Pharmacology, History of Medicine, Psychiatry , Public Health and Epidemiology Just click on the link to access the title. Please note, trial access disables the ability to download these ebooks. Take a look and send your feedback […]

Pubmed just got better with the links through to the Cambridge University range of ejournals – accessible via http://tinyurl.com/campubmed but what about if you’re using a smart phone? This news piece suggests that access to Pubmed via smartphone apps is more popular than via the traditional web interface

The Medical Library will close at 5:50pm Friday 21st December 2012.  We re-open at 8:00am Wednesday 2nd January 2013.   Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!

All you just need is NNT http://www.thennt.com  – the blog that puts “evidence based medicine under the microscope”. With a clear explanation of what Number Needed to Treat actually means (it’s a “a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the number of patients that need to be treated in order […]

http://mandate.dh.gov.uk/ The first Mandate between the Government and the NHS Commissioning Board, setting out the ambitions for the health service for the next two years was published on 13th November. The NHS Mandate is structured around five key areas where the Government expects the NHS Commissioning Board to make improvements: preventing people from dying prematurely […]

tamiflu data argument http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_know_about_the_drugs_they_prescribe.html Bmj.com/tamiflu   etc

Struggling to tell where the internal jugular stops and the subclavian begins? Or want a quick podcast of the Myotomes and Dermatomes in the Upper Limb? Then Instant Anatomy could be the answer. As well as including clear diagrams, and complementary podcasts, there are MCQs and apps for your smart phone. Use your RAVEN login […]

TRIP has always been a tremendously useful tool for skimming the cream of the evidence – getting guidelines, summaries of evidence, systematic reviews quickly and easily, but it just got better. http://www.tripdatabase.com  As well as covering the same high quality evidence as before, the search results also include videos, images, patient information and more. The […]