Wednesday 7 April 2010

UpToDate - new items

If you work in the hospital or come to use the library, you have online access to UpToDate from the front page of the Library Microsite.

These are some important updates:

in ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES MELLITUS
- Hemoglobin A1C for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

in GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
- Pentoxifylline for severe alcoholic hepatitis
- Treatment for primary sclerosing cholangitis

in INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- Preoperative skin antisepsis
- New guidelines for treatment of HIV infection

in ONCOLOGY
- Revised TNM staging criteria

in PEDIATRICS
- Newborn screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
- Blood pressure control in children with chronic kidney disease

in PULMONARY
- Chest radiography in ICU patients on mechanical ventilation

You can email yourself items or request the Library to do the same if you are having trouble accessing it







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