I have included only a few texts below; however, you will find links to some great additional resources in Roger. If you really want online resources, see the box below for details on how to do that in Roger.
Principles of Pulmonary Medicine by 
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by 
Natural History and Clinical Management of Emphysema in Patients with and without Alpha1-Antitrypsin Inhibitor Deficiency by 
Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Disease by 
Advances in Combination Therapy for Asthma and COPD by Searching for information on COPD brings up an interesting challenge. The acronym is so prevelent that you will find results using just COPD, but you will also miss key items without searching for the full phrase "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". So, the anwer is to use both combined with an OR.
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From inhalers in general to albuterol and tiotropium to treatment for COPD, the drug information sources will be a big help.
Don't forget the patient resources will help you figure out the language to use with patients to help them understand. |
Resources for this case include: Textbook Suggestions (look left) Resource Highlight -- Clinical Pharmacology National or State Organizations - Lung & Rare Disease Orgs Cochrane Library -- Quickly Getting to the Evidence Tips for working with Access Medicine Those Synthesized Resources Smoking & Genetics Resources, Redux MedlinePlus -- Search Widget |
Clinical Pharmacology:
Our drug resource databases often have more than just drug information. For example, did you realize that CP is another reference for checking Lab Values? Just look under the "Resource Center."
Clinical Pharmacology is a great resource for anything that is drug related. Not sure what to prescribe for a specific condition? Simply type the disease or condition in the search box and find what you need in the results lists - probably the top one. For example try typing in COPD and look for the one about the disease.
Several sections are available from the overview (aka Drug Monograph) to contra-indications to disease information and more. Lots of good information.
Another reason to get familiar with CP (or Micromedex) is that it is an UCSD Medical Center approved resource for patient care. They prefer for drug information to come from one of these resources so get to know it now.
Organizations for Lung Diseases & Rare Disease Information
Some of the ones below have patient level info and some of them also have health professional level information. All will be great ones to note for future use.
Searching for Evidence - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
If you try a search in Pubmed for smoking cessation, there are SO MANY articles on this topic that you might feel a little overwhelmed. An earlier tip of using some Limits or Filters might help, but there is another tool that might be better for drilling into some articles with high levels of evidence - specifically Systematic Reviews. For quick access to high quality evidence, try searching Cochrane's Database of Systematic Reviews. For example, see what they have on smoking cessation for patients like Jimmy.
Try a search for smoking cessation & COPD -- is there anything recent on the best way to approach quitting smoking.
This tool is great for finding synthesized information on multiple studies that have been coalesced into one resource for comparison. In this case, comparison of effectiveness of smoking cessation methods.
Decision Support - Point of Care Tools: Medscape & Up to Date
These point of care tools will have some info for you on several of the topics this week from COPD to AATD.
Access Medicine
You are probably most familiar with this tool, but have you been noticing the refining tools for "Narrow by Topic" or the categories on the left? Since a simple search for copd gave me thousands of results - even after adding spirometry I had over 100 items, there has to be some way to narrow it down. The Narrow by Topic list would certainly help - especially if you were looking for background on the tests used to evaluation pulmonary function.
Ways to narrow results in Access Medicine:
The following resources are available to everyone without a subscription and for the most part have been developed with government funding. These tools will be available to you even when you graduate and move on from UCSD.
MedlinePlus is a great place to find consumer-friendly materials along with directories, a dictionary & encyclopedia, and more. Take a look and see what you find as a starting point - perhaps with pursed lip breathing.
