Cardio Resources

I hope everyone has seen the November/December copy of Coronary Heart which features your Essex Cardiothoracic Centre. There is a paper copy in the library and some staff in CTC have already registered to receive their free copy. Log onto http://www.coronaryheart.com/
and read all about it.

6 new paper journal titles arriving for 2008 in the library include Cardiovascular Research, British Association of Critical Care Nurses - Nursing in Critical Care, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, Cardiology News, International Journal of Artificial Internal Organs and Perfusion. These are in addition to European Journal of Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. Online journals list to follow. Please come and use them or you won't see them in 2009! If you feel we've made the wrong choice let us know by posting your views on our selection.

OK let's talk about websites - these are some which you may find useful

Cardiovascular resources as at October 2007
This is a list of sites which is selective and in no way exhaustive. None of the cardiology departments attached to universities have been included. Please add or delete as you like

PROFESSIONAL BODIES

American College of Cardiology
http://www.acc.org/

British Cardiovascular Society
http://www.bcs.com/pages/default.asp

BCIS (British Cardiovascular Intervention Society)
http://www.bcis.org.uk/

British Nuclear Cardiology Society
http://www.bncs.org.uk/

British Society of Echocardiography
http://www.bsecho.org/

European Society of Cardiology
http://www.escardio.org/
http://www.escardio.org/knowledge/links/

Primary Care Cardiovascular Society
http://www.pccs.org.uk/

Royal College of Physicians
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/specialty/Cardiology.asp

Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland
http://www.scts.org/

United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association
http://www.ukcpa.org/pharmacist/cardiology/

GOVERNMENT SITES

National Library for Health specialist libraries
http://www.library.nhs.uk/cardiovascular/

Department of Health
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Healthandsocialcaretopics/Coronaryheartdisease/index.htm - guidelines on coronary disease
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4094275 - National Service Framework for Coronary disease (NSF CHD)

Healthcare Commission
http://heartsurgery.healthcarecommission.org.uk/

NICE guidance
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/topic/cardiovascular

JOURNALS

Blackwell Cardiology publications
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Cardiology/

BMC Cadiovascular disorders
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccardiovascdisord/

British Journal of Cardiology
http://www.bjcardio.co.uk/

Cardio Vascular Diabetology
http://www.cardiab.com/

Cardiology
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?aktion=JournalGuidelines&ProduktNr=223832&ContentOnly=false – guidelines for authors

Cardiology in the Young
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CTY

Cardiovascular Pathology
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10548807

Cardiovascular Research
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00086363

Cardiovascular Ultrasound
http://www.cardiovascularultrasound.com/

Evidence-based Cardiovascular Medicine
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623027/description#description
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/articles/browse.asp
http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1045-3873&site=1

Journal WATCH
http://cardiology.jwatch.org/

GENERAL

BMJ Masterclasses
http://masterclasses.bmj.com/GPs/cardiology-diabetes
http://masterclasses.bmj.com/cardiology

BUBL
http://bubl.ac.uk/LINK/c/cardiology.htm

Clinical tutorials
http://www.surgical-tutor.org.uk/default-home.htm?specialities/cardiothoracic.htm~right

Cardiovascular/cardiology News
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/cardiovascular/

Catalogue of Internet resources
http://bubl.ac.uk/Link/h/heart.htm

Centre for Evidence Based medicine
http://www.cebm.net/

CHORUS – “quick ref hypertext” for physicians and medical students
http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/index/2.html

Computers in Cardiology
http://www.escardio.org/knowledge/links/

touchCardiology – independent insight for medical specialists
http://www.touchcardiology.com/

Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiothoracic_surgery

CHARITIES / PATIENT INFORMATION

BBC Health news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/health/2000/heart_disease/default.stm
- heart disease

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/heart/index.shtml

British Heart Foundation charity
http://www.bhf.org.uk/
http://www.bhf.org.uk/smoking/ - smoking
http://www.heartstats.org/homepage.asp
- statistics

Cholestrol charity
http://www.heartuk.org.uk/

Childrens’ Heart Federation cCharity
http://www.childrens-heart-fed.org.uk/