E-books arrived!

A selection of Oxford handbooks are now available online for all staff who work at Basildon Hospital provided by Basildon Healthcare Library.
These include

• Oxford handbook of Acute Medicine
• Oxford handbook of Anaesthesia
• Oxford handbook of Cardiology
• Oxford handbook of Clinical Haematology
• Oxford handbook of Clinical Surgery
• Oxford handbook of Critical Care
• Thoracic imaging

Go to http://www.eel.nhs.uk/eel/index.htm

Click on Online books and journals

Click on View all resources available to you with your NHS Athens password link—
http://authensams.net/my/

Takes you to MyAthens - enter Athens user name and password to log in

Click on Resources tab at top of page
Click on local resources
Click on 123 Doc: online medical courses and NHS jobs
Click on My e-books and e-journals
Click to view your e-books

You will need to register the first time you use the resources


NHS Athens usernames and passwords are available to ALL NHS staff. If you work in Basildon Hospital and need help in obtaining yours ask at the library Tel: 0845 155 3111 x 3594

New Books

Great news!
If you haven't been to the library recently or checked out the library catalogue, you won't be aware of all the new books coming in at the moment.

New titles winging their way to the shelves include latest editions of classics such as

• Braunwald's heart disease,
• Moss and Adam's heart disease in infants, children and adolescents including the fetus and young adult
• Marriot's practical electrocardiography
• Hurst's the heart

Also books on echocardiography, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias and pacing, EEG signal processing, pediatric and perinatal cardiology, cardiac perfusion and pumping engineering.

You can check online at http://www.btuheks.nhs.uk/library/library_catalogue.htm

E-books are arriving soon as well

E-books

Finding it difficult to get to the library? There are a vast array of e-resources out there to be used. Electronically available books are there waiting for you. You will need an Athens user name and password to access them through MyiLibrary
http://www.myilibrary.com/Search/quicksearch.asp
or via EEL website
http://www.eel.nhs.uk/eel/index.htm >online books> MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com/search/my_content.asp

I tried searching subjects in the quick search pane and retrieved the following results (some e-books are duplicated)
anaemia(141); anemia(52); atheroma(8); blood (403); "cardiac rehabilitation"(13); cardiothoracic(8); cardiology(59); "cardiovascular disease"(256); "congenital heart"(24); echocardiography(15); ECG(14); haematology(38); heart(379); "heart disease"(216); hematology(15); hypertension(206); thrombosis(66); "venous thromboembolism"(9)
of course there are many more examples eg coronary radiology etc.

OR LOOK UP BOOKS4FREE http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/fb/special.htm

AND ACCESS FOR EXAMPLE
L. Henry Edmunds, Jr.Cardiac Surgery in the Adult 1997 - The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1542 pp ISBN 0070189633

Cardiovascular Diseases
Alberto Hatim Ricardo, Enrique Flores DelgadoFisiopatología de la Hipertensión Arterial 1999 - Instituto Superior de Ciencias M‚dicas. CamagüeySpanish
Antonio Coca, Alejandro De La SierraHipertensión Arterial Guia de Tratamiento Spanish
Roca-Cusachs Coll, Alejandro, et al.Incremento Matutino de la Presión Arterial Spanish
NHLBI (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee1997 - 73 pp; 0.5 MByte

Cardiology
Manuel Wilke DelgadoAtlas Diagnostic Dolor Toracico 2001Spanish
Eugene BraunwaldBraunwald Atlas of Heart Diseases Access only after previous registration
Stig S LundbäckCardiac pumping and Function of the Ventricular Septum 2nd edition, 1999
José F. Guadalajara BooCardiología Programa de Actualización para Médicos GeneralesSpanish
Ignacio Plaza PérezCardiología Preventiva - Sociedad Española de CardiologíaSpanish
Xavier André-FouëtCardiologie - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon IFrench
Cardiology 2002 - eMedicine, Inc.
James M. FoxCardiology University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook4th edition
Cardiovascular Disorders, in: Merck Manual 2000
Frank G. YanowitzECG Course 2001 - University of Utah School of Medicine
Dean Jenkins, Stephen GerredECG Library 2001
Nicola Binetti, Mario Cavazza, Tiziano Lenzi, Giuseppe TrisolinoElementi di Diagnosi e Terapia delle Aritmie Cardiache 1998Italian
Harald Becher, Peter N BurnsHandbook of Contrast Echocardiography 2000 - The John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, 200 pp; 2.0 MByte Access only after previous registration
National Heart, Lung & Blood InstituteHealthy Heart Handbook for Women ISBN 0-16-037976-8
Manual Práctico de Cardiología para no Especialistas - Centro de Investigación para la Electrocardiología y la TelemedicinaSpanish
Sue Apple, Joseph Lindsay, Jr.Principles and Practice of Interventional Cardiology 2000 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 316 pp ISBN 0781710200
José Ramón González JuanateySistema Tutor en Electrocardiografía - Servicio de Cardiología UCC, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de CompostelaSpanish
Terence RaffertyTransesophageal Echocardiography - Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
J. Willis HurstVentricular Electrocardiography 1998 - Medscape Access only after previous registration
Barry L. Zaret, Marvin Moser, Lawrence S. CohenYale Heart Book 1992 - Yale University School of Medicine, 362 pp

So go on and enjoy reading from your PC 24/7 now!