Telecourse: Adverse Childhood Experiences and their Relationship to Adult Health and Wellbeing

Recent studies have shown that adults who have experienced multiple adverse childhood events such as abuse and neglect are at an increased risk for the development of diseases as adults, including ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease. Dr. Felitti explores the relationship of health risk behavior and disease to the breadth of exposure to childhood abuse and household dysfunction. Effective adult screening techniques are reviewed to help physicians recognize and manage the long-term medical impact of adverse childhood events. Strategies for recognizing, treating and preventing adverse events in children are also discussed.

This one-hour DVD is now available for check-out in the Health Sciences Library.

Featured Resource: ACS Surgery

An official American College of Surgeons publication, ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice offers authoritative recommendations on current surgical care from over 200 master surgeons. Organized in a "body-system" format, ACS Surgery "thinks like a surgeon," guiding users quickly to trustworthy recommendations to aid in surgical decision making. Continually updated with the latest standards of technique and practice, ACS Surgery includes more than 100 decision-making algorithms and over 1,500 drawings, graphs, and photos.

Sections include:
• Elements of Contemporary Practice
• Basic Surgical and Perioperative Considerations
• Head and Neck
• Breast, Skin, and Soft Tissue
• Thorax
• Alimentary Tract and Abdomen
• Vascular System
• Trauma and Thermal Injury
• Critical Care
• Care in Special Situations
• Normal Laboratory Values

Find ACS Surgery in our Stat!Ref online textbook collection.

Featured Resource: ACP's PIER

ACP's PIER: The Physicians' Information & Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials
PIER is a decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of evidence-based guidance for physicians. Modules focus on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. AHFS DI® Essentials is designed to offer health professionals easy access to knowledge that is critical at the point of care. Essentials monographs draw on the meticulously evidence-based guidelines in the full AHFS DI® database, distilling for the health professional the essential information on prescription and key over-the-counter (OTC) drugs in an easy-to-use, highly structured outline format. Sections include:

• What's New
• Diseases A-Z
• Screening & prevention
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• Ethical & Legal Issues
• Procedures
• Evidence Ratings & Criteria
• AHFS Essentials

Find ACP's PIER in our Stat!Ref online textbook collection.

AudioDigest: New Formats

The Health Sciences Library is now receiving AudioDigest series in Audio CD format. Test/evaluation forms for CME credits are also available. Current topics for our subscriptions:

• Emergency Medicine (July 7): Have medical bag, will travel: First aid kits for remote wilderness travel, and Hypothermia basics.


• Family Medicine (July 14): Summer hazards: Outdoor dermatitis, and Snakebites.


• General Surgery (July 7): Challenges in trauma


• Internal Medicine (July 7): Managing asthma in patients with comorbidities


• Orthopaedics (June): Focus on fractures

Also, check out the AudioDigest website for additional lectures, podcasts, and CME opportunities. Select from both free and fee-based options at: http://www.audiodigest.com

Library Web Page Revisions

Our web page has been revised to reflect changes in the way we access the Michigan eLibrary databases.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library and Health & Wellness Resource Center are now included in the GALE link.


• Michigan eLibrary will require a Michigan Driver's License or state ID number to log in.


• NetLibrary now requires either an individual login or a Michigan Driver's License number. Those with a Michigan Driver's License number can create their own individual logins. Please ask library staff if you need assistance with this process.

Telecourse: Peripheral Arterial Disease

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a highly prevalent disorder associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, yet is underdiagnosed and undertreated in primary care practice. In this program, Dr. Alain Drooze explains how to easily apply new ACC/AHA guidelines for management of patients with PAD, reviewing differential diagnosis, risk reduction strategies, treatment of intermittent claudication, and when to refer a patient to a vascular specialist.
This 60-minute video course is now available in DVD and VHS formats in the Health Sciences Library.

Recent "Clinics" topics

Topics covered in the latest Clinics issues:

• Alzheimer's Disease: Nursing Clinics (March 2006)


• Asthma: Clinics in Chest Medicine (March)


• Assisted Reproductive Technology Update and Vaginal Delivery: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology (March)


• Dissociative Disorders: Psychiatric Clinics (March)


• Emergencies in the Outpatient Setting: Medical Clinics (March & May)


• Evidence-Based Surgery: Surgical Clinics (February)


• Men's Health: Primary Care (March)


• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Clinics in Chest Medicine (March Suppl. 1s)


• Phonosurgery: Otolaryngologic Clinics (February)


• Radiation Medicine Update for the Practicing Oncologist I: Hematology/Oncology Clinics (February)


• The Science Behind Delivery Room Resuscitation: Clinics in Perinatology (March)


• Thromboembolic Disease and Antithrombotic Agents: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (February)

These journals are currently available for checkout or photocopying in the Health Sciences Library. Clinics series are shelved with the bound journals.

Telecourse: Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia: Putting Your Finger on the Diagnosis (NCME #858)
Dr. Jessica Berman demonstrates a focused, hands-on approach to diagnosing fibromyalgia that includes a physical exam to identify the 18 tender points, which are sensitive and specific to this chronic syndrome in 80% of cases. Once the diagnosis is made, a combination of medications and exercise can help patients with fibromyalgia reduce their symptoms, function better, and enjoy an improved quality of life.
This 60-minute video is now available in the Health Sciences Library in both DVD and VHS formats.

Your help is needed!

The Health Sciences Library is conducting a customer satisfaction survey. Clicking this link will call up a printable copy of our three-question survey. You may mail or fax the completed survey back to us, leave it at the Library desk in the Wege Center, or email your responses to Mary A. Hanson at hansonm@trinity-health.org.
Thank you!

NIH Clinical Alert: International HIV/AIDS Trial Finds Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy Superior to Episodic Therapy

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced on January 18 that enrollment into a large international HIV/AIDS trial comparing continuous antiretroviral therapy with episodic drug treatment guided by levels of CD4+ cells has been stopped. Enrollment was stopped because those patients receiving episodic therapy had twice the risk of disease progression (the development of clinical AIDS or death), the major outcome of the study.

Read the full story at http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2006/niaid-18.htm.

Telecourse: Management of HIV/AIDS

Advances in treatment over the past decade have changed AIDS from a terminal illness to a chronic, long-term medical condition. In this 60-minute telecourse, Dr. Thomas M. Kerkering provides primary care providers with timely, practical information about diagnosing and managing patients with HIV/AIDS. Now available in DVD and VHS formats in the Health Sciences Library.

Telecourse: Elder Abuse

Elder abuse: detection, management and prevention, from the Network for Continuing Medical Education.

In this 60-minute video program, international expert Dr. Barbara Paris explains how to recognize elderly patients who are at-risk for or who are victims of mistreatment, and presents steps that can be taken to protect and monitor elderly patients who are victims of abuse or neglect. Now available in DVD and VHS formats in the Health Sciences Library.

Telecourse: Avian Influenza

Avian Influenza, from the Network for Continuing Medical Education.
    Global concern about the potential for pandemic avian influenza is rooted in the pathogenicity of avian influenza virus strains in humans and the lack of immunity to these highly mutable viruses in the general population. Dr. Alan Sanders provides timely, practical advice on how to improve clinical awareness and implement strategies for diagnosing, treating, and preventing avian influenza.
    This 50 minute video is now available in DVD and VHS formats in the Health Sciences Library.

NLM Mobile

The National Library of Medicine has collected a number of resources for handheld devices on the PubMed sidebar. The NLM Mobile link connects the user to:

• PubMed for Mobiles, with text-only search options for any handheld web browser
  
• Downloadable books from the NCBI Bookshelf using the free MobiPocket Reader
  
• MD on Tap for Palm or Pocket PC
  
• Wireless System for Emergency Responders (WISER) for Palm or Pocket PC

Gale Virtual Reference Library Online

Michigan eLibrary's online Internet subscriptions now include several titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This encyclopedia collection may be used at any Saint Mary's workstation. Michigan residents may also use the Virtual Reference Library at home using their Michigan driver's license or state ID number, through MeL.org.

Medicine & Health titles include:

• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine


• Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer


• Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders


• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Telecourse: Assisting patients who need lifestyle changes

This 60-minute video discusses nonpharmacologic approaches to slowing disease progression and improving the quality of life of patients with chronic disease, focusing on education and counseling to help patients improve diet and nutrition, increase physical activity, and enhance problem-solving and coping skills.

The program, released on August 8, is now available in both DVD and videocassette formats in the Health Sciences Library.

Library Catalog Up & Running

Our year-long project of developing an online catalog of library materials is nearing completion. The Health Sciences Library Catalog lists books, journals and audiovisuals available in Saint Mary's Health Sciences Library. In addition, the catalog includes links to selected health-related texts through the STAT!Ref and NetLibrary ebook collections. All Internet-linked workstations in Saint Mary's computer network are authorized to use these ebook collections.

This Week in the New England Journal...

The Perspectives section of the August 4, 2005 New England Journal of Medicine presents discussions of the ethics, risks and benefits of organ donation by living donors as well as the controversy surrounding public solicitation of organ donation. Visit the NEJM Website for abstracts, extracts, and an audio interview of article authors from the latest Journal issue. Health Sciences Library workstations are authorized to access full-text articles and other licensed features.
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Telecourse: Medical Ethics and End-of-Life Decisions

Dr. William Matory interviews Dr. Edmund Pellegrino,a world-renowned spokesman on ethics and the medical profession, in this 60-minute video. Dr. Pellegrino addresses end-of-life and other difficult decisions faced when caring for patients, and provides clinically and morally sound advice based on his belief in the moral nature of medicine. For a more complete description, see Program #851 in the NCME catalog. This program, in DVD and videocassette formats, is now available for checkout at the Health Sciences Library.

Telecourse: Long-haul Flights & Associated Maladies

David Goldberg, M.D., presents a 60-minute video course discussing medical problems arising from flights of more than 6 hours' duration. For a more complete description of the course, along with a short videoclip, see the NCME Telecourse Catalog entry for Program 850. Long-haul Flights and Associated Maladies is now available for checkout at the Health Sciences Library, in both DVD and VHS formats.