CHAPTER 29: Internet Resources

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

• The references in the electronic version of this book can be copied and pasted into the Google Scholar search box. scholar.google.com

• If the full text is available, it can be saved in your Google Scholar personal library for future reference.

• If access to the full text is restricted on Google Scholar, you can ask your medical librarian for help.

• You can also look for the e-mail address of the corresponding author (usually listed with the free abstract), and ask the author for an electronic copy of the full article.

PUBMED

• U.S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

• PubMed contains more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Some citations include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.

• Search example for pressure half time: Libanoff Rodbard 1968

• Many of the guidelines mentioned in this text can be found and downloaded using PubMed.

• PubMed Central is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

GOOGLE SCHOLAR VERSUS PUBMED

• Google Scholar is more forgiving during a “copy and paste” literature search compared with PubMed.

• You can copy and paste an entire reference from this book into the Google Scholar search box.

• In PubMed, for best results, you should paste into the search box only title, journal abbreviation, and year from the references in this book.

Source

• Shultz M. Comparing test searches in PubMed and Google Scholar. J Med Libr Assoc. 2007;95:442–445.

GOOGLE IMAGES—SEARCH SUGGESTIONS

• Pictures of prosthetic valves: Medtronic Hall; Starr Edwards; St. Jude; Carbomedics; Beall; Bjork Shiley strut fatigue.

• Noonan syndrome: The unique facial features should prompt a search for pulmonic stenosis on echo.

• Holt-Oram syndrome: The “fingerized” thumb should prompt a search for an atrial septal defect on echo.

Source

• Böhm M. Holt-Oram syndrome. Circulation. 1998;98:2636–2637.

• “Bread and butter pericarditis” pictures illustrate the surface of the heart in pericarditis. Think about these images when you image the anterior pericardial space from the parasternal window.

Source

• Spodick DH. Medical history of the pericardium. The hairy hearts of hoary heroes. Am J Cardiol. 1970;26:447–454.

Homer’s Odyssey makes reference to “hairy” pericarditis hearts.

YOUTUBE SEARCH SUGGESTIONS

• Embryology of the atrial septum illustrates how a secundum defect is really a defect of the primum septum.

• Search Paul Wood jugular to see the neck vein physical exam taught by a master clinician. This helps in the understanding of color Doppler caval inflow patterns.

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