Septris

http://cme.stanford.edu/septris/game/index.html

An interactive case based online activity for identifying and managing sepsis.

Making sense of Meta-Analysis

Meta-Analysis, no matter how beautifully done, is practically as useless as any other evidence if it is not interpreted properly.

A comprehensive handbook can be found online here:


Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.cochrane-handbook.org.


However, for a shorter more practical guide in understanding meta-analysis graphs click here

App for auscultation

A FREE app from 3M™ Littmann® allows students and clinicians to practice auscultation of lung sounds. The app has a nice interface that's easy to use.

Here is the link to the website with a link to their free app.

You can get for their app free directly from App Store as well.

Chest X-Ray - Heart Failure

by Simone Cremers, Jennifer Bradshaw and Freek Herfkens

Radiology department of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht and the Medical Centre Alkmaar, the Netherlands, the Netherlands 

 

http://www.radiologyassistant.nl/en/4c132f36513d4

The vascular pedicle width (VPW) can help in differentiating these different forms of pulmonary edema (6):

• Normal VPW: most common in capillary permeability or acute cardiac failure.
• Widened VPW: most common in overhydration/renal failure and chronic cardiac failure.
• Narrowed VPW: most common in capillary permeability.

Respiratory

http://respiratorytherapycave.blogspot.com

http://respiratorytherapycave.blogspot.com/

A Respiratory Therapist Blog with useful Cheat Sheets and Protocols
Basics of Mechanical Ventilator including interpretation of ventilator graphics are found here

Risk of fracture

http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/tool.jsp

GINA Guidelines

Guidelines & Resources