MD Consult/Nursing Consult Enhancements

You can link to articles in other resources from within MD Consult and Nursing Consult .

You can also now switch to MD Consult from within Nursing Consult using a pull-down menu in the upper right corner of the Nursing Consult interface.

 

Rare Book Profile: John Elliotson’s Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State.

John Elliotson’s Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State: With Remarks Upon the Opposition of Many Members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and Others to the Reception of the Inestimable Blessings of Mesmerism (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843) is one of the earliest works on the use of hypnosis as surgical anesthesia.  Physicians at the time were experimenting with a number of substances, seeking to dull pain without killing the patient. The use of ether as an anesthetic was introduced in 1846.

John Elliot son (1791-1868) was a prominent London physician.  After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Cambridge University, and St. Thomas and Guy’s hospitals in London, he became a professor of medicine at London University in 1831, and physician to University College Hospital in 1834.  He was one of the first in London to emphasize clinical lecturing and one of the earliest British physicians to advocate use of the stethoscope. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, served as president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was a founding member of the Phrenological Society.  Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Wilkie Collins were among his admirers.

At the time that Elliotson was beginning his career, there was a resurgence of popular interest in mesmerism, which had been considered discredited 50 years earlier by a French commission of prominent scientists, including Benjamin Franklin. While some later inquiries were not as dismissive, Mesmerism was considered scientifically questionable.

Elliotson witnessed public demonstrations of mesmeric trance by French practitioners in 1837, and began using it in his practice.  Elliotson’s advocacy of mesmerism and public demonstrations he gave at University College Hospital drew criticism from the medical profession. One of his harshest critics was Thomas Wakley, editor of The Lancet, who had at first supported him. Opposition from the Council of University College and the Hospital Committee forced him to resign his posts in 1838, but he continued in private practice. In 1843 Elliotson established The Zoist, a mesmerist magazine in which he continued experimental and scientific investigation of mesmeric phenomena, and he founded a mesmeric hospital in 1849.

In Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State, Elliotson describes procedures performed by himself and others, especially an amputation by W. Squire Ward and mesmerist W. Topham. He describes the controversy that broke this case was reported and addresses his critics’ arguments. It is a slim, inexpensively produced volume, with small type, narrow margins, and no illustrations.

The Health Sciences Library’s copy is the first American edition, published in the same year as the British edition. It is bound in green ribbed cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. It came to the library as a gift from James J. Waring.

 

Rare materials are available to individuals or groups by appointment on Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons, or at other times by arrangement. To schedule an appointment, contact Emily Epstein, emily.epstein@ucdenver.edu or 303-724-2119.

[Emily Epstein, Cataloging Librarian]

New Resource to Support NIH Open Access Mandate

 

There is a new resource guide to help you stay in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Compliance with this open access mandate can be confusing, this guide provides information on the various steps of the process from paper submission to publication in PubMed Central.

Dana Abbey, Health Information Literacy Coordinator

 

 

VisualDx trial integrated with UpToDate

We have a trial set up for VisualDx through May 15th. It is integrated into UpToDate but you can also access VisualDx by itself.
If you access VisualDx through UpToDate, you can see results that include an orange VDx icon  that says “see images in VisualDx.”

VisualDx is a digital medical image library. More information

App information:  From inside the VisualDx platform, you can click on the “Get free app” link in the middle of the home page to receive an individual username & password for the mobile version.  From within your mobile device, search for VisualDx under apps, and download to the mobile device.  When prompted for the u/p enter the one that was emailed to you.

If you have feedback about the trial, please contact heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu

 

AMA Manual of Style trial

We have trial access to AMA Manual of Style from February 12-March 14, 2013, so take a look and let us know what you think!

AMA Manual of Style Online offers the full text of the 10th edition with extensive search and browse options, policy updates made in real time, an SI conversion calculator, learning and training resources, monthly commentary, and more.

For questions or comments: heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu

 

Apps to ease information overload: Docphin and docwise

We have set up institutional access to two new apps designed to help health sciences professionals manage information.

Docphin 

• Personalize medical news and research
• Access full text articles anywhere from over 500 journals, twitter feeds, and news sources.
• Share, discuss, and save your articles

Download the app (currently optimized only for iPhone).

docwise 

• Access medical journals, news and topics in one place
• Stay up to date on medical news, track important topics
• Save articles to read offline

Download the app (currently optimized only for iPad).

For reviews of both products: Krafty Librarian

General Dentistry back issues

The website for the journal General Dentistry is undergoing some updates and only the current issue is available online. If you need access to an older article, please email the  Electronic Resources Librarian, Heidi Zuniga,  (heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu) and she will request it from the publisher.

UPDATE: Back issues should now be available

New Online Tool to Track Public Access Compliance

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new tool to track compliance of publications that fall under the NIH Public Access Policy. The Public Access Compliance Monitor (PACM) supports the efforts of grantee organizations to ensure their awards are compliant. This tool provides detailed information about each article and allows institutions to track the status of deposited papers. For information regarding access to the PACM, please visit http://ow.ly/gOgZ9.

Dana Abbey, MLS

Flu Resources

RESOURCES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Seasonal Flu

• Flu Basics
• Information for Health Professionals
• Influenza A (H3N2) Variant Virus
• Flu Activity & Surveillance

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Influenza (flu)

NEWS

Flu Activity Picks Up Nationwide.  CDC recommends vaccination and antiviral treatment against influenza (CDC)

Flu season on brink of epidemic (Denver Post)

Drugmakers report U.S. shortages of flu vaccine, Tamiflu (Reuters)

Flu Widespread, Leading a Range of Winter’s Ills (New York Times)

New Resource: AccessAnesthesiology

Check out our newest resource: AccessAnesthesiology. This database includes anesthesiology e-books, calculators and other resources covering pain management, critical care, and perioperative medicine.

We are able to provide this resource thanks to generous support from the Department of Anesthesiology.