External Clinical Resources
The following apps have been reviewed by the ECI and recommended for use. If you have others you would recommend please email these to us.
iMedicalApps is a website that reviews all medical apps. You may wish to look at this site to see the latest reviews on new apps.
For NSW Health employees - CIAP also contains a list of useful apps - click here
ECI Emergency Procedures App
Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)
CALD Assist
NSW Ambulance Protocols
Eye Emergency Manual
ISBAR for iPhone and ISBAR HD for iPad
iOS app (iPad version)
Institute of Trauma and Injury Management
RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines
Paediatric Intensive Care Guidelines
MDCalc Medical Calculator
Bites and Stings
ANZCA Opioid Calculator
Australian Immunisation handbook
WikiEM
Blood Components
iMIMS for Apple and MIMS for Android
Micromedex Drug Interactions
Micromedex Drug Reference
Micromedex IV Compatibility
BMJ Best Practice
iTransfuse
We are looking for the best and brightest of sites and links for you to try yourself. Below are some of our top choices, in no particular order.
If you know of any site or your own which should be on here please contact us.
Emergency Medicine blogs
Critical Care (Emergency Medicine)
Scott Weingart is an "ED Intensivist" and offers a number of insights, this is an enormous resource and well worth a look around, as with all these blogs the authors can be followed on twitter.
Real ED Stories
Published by Penguin Australia in collaboration with the ACEM, EMERGENCY: Real Stories from Australia’s ED Doctors is a collection of stories written by FACEMs and edited by Simon Judkins.
Education
This site has a number of interactive eLearning modules on the basics, which might be useful for your junior (and some not so junior) docs. A lot of work has gone into it in this developing area of medicine.
Neuraxiom is all about nerve blocks and ultrasound. It focuses on a number of nerve blocks you might not do but also some useful ones you may want to use such as femoral and fascia iliaca blocks. What it does do is give you a nice insight into using the ultrasound. He gives a rap to an unidentified FACEM so we can all bask in the glory until he identifies himself. Doesn’t have facial blocks but you don’t have to stop looking, just find another site.
This is a very comprehensive and well presented site on paediatric resuscitation, using an eLearning platform to cover all the basics in detail. You need a login and NSW Health employee number, so if you don't have that email the administrator and have a look.
Emergency Nursing
This Learning Nurse website provides an independent, free and safe resource for ALL levels of nurses to assess, maintain and enhance their professional competence.
Evidence Based
This site distills numerous papers for everything it seems and gives you a clinical bottom line. It is robust and useful.
In their words "a powerful tool to indicate benefit and harm that both patients and doctors can understand".
General Emergency Medicine Blogs
Needs no introduction, and if it does, just go there. It’s big, good and entertaining with an enormous amount of useful stuff. If you are studying for exams be prepared to be disciplined and don't just enjoy the site.
The Virtual Hospital led by Professor Simon Carley and a dedicated group of blogging clinicians has a broad scope of material delivered in a very digestible way. It requires a sign on but is free, I strongly recommend it for all levels of ED doctors and clinicians.
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine.
A site we've all heard of, which gives a fun insight to emergency medicine. The founding fathers of smart edutainment.
This is a smart, amusing approach to the evidence and a nice personal take on it. I remember being quite despondent after my time in Ireland but if this guy is anything to go by they are in good hands now, even if they are few.
MediNuggets was created in 2012 by Dr’s Deeps Majumdar & Mike Noonan on a platform of catering for those in the ED / Critical care field such as ourselves with...’short attention spans and short memories’. So that when the inevitable medical dilemma ..‘I read something about that once but I can’t remember where’ …. now arises, medinuggets.com can come to the rescue.
An enormous body of work and a lot of it very, very good with a mixture of blog style comments and paper reviews with some material on skills, easy viewing. There is some trolling required but it’s worth it.
A multilayered site which has lots of onsite info and links with summaries, close ties to EMRAP and has some good videos. A very enjoyable site.
Lots of good topics discussed in depth with a more local flavour (content wise). Thorough dissection of EM issues with lots of audiocasts - download them and listen to in the car.
Smart it is EM Rap style discussions, witty and very detailed. Not so much rapid fire but a detailed audiolog. We suggest for those longer trips put it on your iPod and have a listen.
Guidelines and Protocols
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Clinical Manual, Version 6.0
This is a library of clinical resources published in January 2013. It includes journal articles, standards, clinical manuals and other training and reference materials.
This site for the UK College does have some very good resources and links to a number of external resources identified. The introduction to research material is of particular value. The GEMNet guidelines are the best researched, much as the ECI ones, but there are only 4 of them and a bit long.
Some of the guidelines such as NIV are not at all what we would teach in Australasia so beware what you read and check local senior practice.
The UK NICE has outlined draft guidance to help A&E departments ensure there are enough nursing staff available to provide safe care at all times to patients.
Medical Specialty Sites (relevant to Emergency Medicine)
Established by the New Zealand Dermatological Society, the national association of New Zealand registered dermatologists, to provide information about skin diseases, conditions and treatment for patients and their health professionals.
A very nice site with lots of great ECG stuff. Useful for all levels unless you are already an ECG superstar, in which case go and do something else, like introduce yourself to your kids. It is interactive and has a nice toy in the "move the arrow and see what the axis does to the ECG". Try it now.
Interactive ECGs in clinical context.
A few good pathways, a limited number of reasonable resolution images worth a drive through and it also has some good links.
Can't decide what test to use or want to develop some smart retorts to the irritating radiology registrar? This might interest you as well as the Canadian version of the same thing.
Simulation
A hi-fidelity podcast and blog resource about simulation.
Light entertaining and educational.The STEM project started in 2012 as an initiative of the emergency departments of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is supported by Emergency Medicine Education and Training (EMET) funding from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). STEM’s remit is to support simulation-based education and training of medical staff in 4 emergency departments.