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Alcohol & Drug Dependence
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Anatomy & Physiology
Cardiology
Dermatology
Drug Therapy / Pharmacology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology

Geriatrics
Haematology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Intensive Care
Maxillo-Facial
Medicine
Nephrology
Neurology

Nursing
Obstetrics, Midwifery, Gynaecology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Otorhinolaryngology
Paediatrics
Pain / Palliative Care

Pathology
Psychiatry / Psychology
Radiology
Rahabilitation
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology
Surgery
Urology

General Reference / Collections

KEMH / WA Health Library Catalogue (Joint Catalogue with other Health Services)

Library Catalogues

Australian Government Publication Information

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

Educator's Reference Desk

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

Free Books 4 Doctors

Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care

How to Read a Paper

MDconsult Books

MedCalc 3000 Medical Reference and Decision Support Tools
MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide range of medical formulae, calculators, conversion tools, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools commonly used by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and students. Tools include:

National Academies Press
(more than 2,500 books online free)

PubMed Bookshelf

Statistics at Square One

StatRef Collection

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Books Listed by Clinical Specialty

Alcohol & Drug Dependence

Alcohol and Other Drugs Handbook (Aust Dept Hlth & Ageing)

Anaesthesiology

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Miller's Anesthesia

Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy Atlases

Anatomy TV

Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

Cardiology

Braunwald's Heart Disease: a Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach (Goldberger)

Cardiovascular Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (Crawford)

ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace - Alan E Lindsay Center

ECG Library

Hursts the Heart (Fuster)

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners

Dermatology

Clinical Dermatology (Habif)

Dermatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Drug Therapy / Pharmacology

AHFS Drug Information

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Antibiotic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th edition, 2008)

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

Australian Medicines Handbook

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzung)

Cardiovascular Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Dermatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Developmental Disability Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (Therapeutic Guidelines)

DrugPoints® System

Endocrinology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Gastrointestinal Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Shannon)

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Merck Manuals

Neurology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Oral and Dental Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia (Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne)

Palliative Care Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Psychotropic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Review of Natural Products

Rheumatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits

Stockley's Drug Interactions

Therapeutic Guidelines
Includes:  Analgesic, Antibiotic, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastrointestinal, Neurology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, Developmental Disability

Emergency Medicine

Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (Roberts)

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli)

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)

Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Shannon)

Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green & Swiontkowski)

Trauma (Moore)

Wilderness Medicine (Auerbach)

Endocrinology

Endocrinology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Kronenberg)

Gastroenterology

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (Grendell)

Gastrointestinal Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease

Geriatrics

Geriatric Medicine, an Evidence Based Approach

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Practice of Geriatrics (Duthie)

Haematology

Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice (Hoffman)

Immunology

Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th edition, 2008)

Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice (Adkinson)

Infectious Diseases

Antibiotic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Infectious Disease (Wilson)

Infectious Diseases (Cohen & Powderly)

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett)

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease

Intensive Care

Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (Bongard)

Maxillo-Facial

Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment

Oral and Dental Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Primary Preventive Dentistry

Medicine

AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) Conditions A to Z

ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials

Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Goldman)

CME Centre (MD Consult)
Access to free continuing medical education through Clinical Cornerstone, a bi-monthly CME journal. Articles are designed to provide the primary care practitioner with information on cutting-edge developments. The CME Test Form can be printed out and faxed or mailed for ACCME Category 1 credit.

Conn's Current Therapy (Rakel & Bope)

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (Tierney)

DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (DeGowin)

Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (Taylor)

Ferri's Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient

Ferri's Clinical Advisor

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Access Medicine)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (STAT!Ref)

Integrative Medicine (Rakel)

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Osler Medical Handbook

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

Textbook of Family Medicine (Rakel)

Nephrology

Brenner & Rector's The Kidney

Neurology

Adam's & Victor's Principles of Neurology

Neurology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Textbook of Clinical Neurology (Goetz)

Nursing

Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills (Altman)

Foundations of Nursing Research

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

Obstetrics, Midwifery, Gynaecology

Comprehensive Gynecology (Katz)

Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health: (CEMACH Publications)
Includes series: Why Mothers Die, Perinatal Mortality, Diabetes in Pregnancy

Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (DeCherney)

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Global Library of Women's Medicine

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Obstetrics Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Gabbe)

Williams Obstetrics

Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide

Oncology

Clinical Oncology (Abeloff)

National Cancer Institute (US National Institutes of Health)

Ophthalmology

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)

Ophthalmology (Yanoff)

Orthopaedics

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (Skinner)

DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green & Swiontkowski)

Otorhinolaryngology

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery

Paediatrics

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (Hay)

Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in Australia

Harriet Lane Handbook: a Manual for Pediatric House Officers (Johns Hopkins)

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (Kliegman)

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia (Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne)

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

Practical Echocardiography for the Neonatologist. Available onsite. Use Core Systems or HEALTH from the Start menu.

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

Rudolph's Pediatrics

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green & Swiontkowski)

Pain / Palliative Care

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Palliative Care Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Palliative Medicine (Walsh)

Pathology

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (Henry)

Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Psychiatry / Psychology / Mental Health

Download of Psychiatry

DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

ECT Guide: The Chief Psychiatrist's Guidelines for the Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Western Australia 2006

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry (Stern)

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard)

Psychiatric Secrets (Jacobson)

Psychotropic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Review of General Psychiatry (Goldman)

Radiology

Essentials of Radiology (Mettler)

Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: a Textbook of Medical Imaging

Rehabilitation

Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Frontera)

Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques

Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation

Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Murray & Nadel)

Rheumatology

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

Rheumatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Surgery

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Way)

Operative Surgery Manual (Khatri)

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery (Townsend)

Schwartz's Principles of Surgery

Urology

Campbell-Walsh Urology (Wein)

Smith’s General Urology (Tanagho)

 

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