LibGuides: Problem-based Learning & Finding the Evidence: Case 12: John Dewey -- My Girlfriend Heard a Noise

Books

Pathophysiology of Heart Disease by Leonard S. Lilly
Publication Date: 2015
Specifically designed to prepare medical students for their initial encounters with patients with heart disease. Up-to-date medical imaging show real-world examples of cardiovascular diseases and related conditions. It has some great summary tables & charts.
Endocarditis by Kwan-Leung Chan, et. al.
Publication Date: 2016
This text gives you more about the management of endocarditis. It covers diagnosis, the two types of echocardiograph and more.
Infective Endocarditis by Gilbert Habib (Ed)
Publication Date: 2016
It has short chapters (less than 10 pages for most) on many of the topics you need this week - epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria (including Duke criteria), and more.
Evidence-based cardiology by Salim Yusuf, et al
Call Number: WG 166 E93 2010
Print only, but has some great chapters about valves, indication for surgery, and types of valves.

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Videos & Multimedia

Access Medicine: Auscultation Classroom
A nice collection of audio files on different heart sounds.
JOVE: Cardiac Exam Videos
Includes videos for doing the exam as well as abnormal sounds.

John Dewey -- My Girlfriend Heard a Noise

Up to Date will be good for both the clinical type questions as well as the background info - perhaps murmurs, endocarditis or heart failure. Be sure to check out some of the other resources too - maybe a guideline or a systematic review.

You will also find some great heart images in Medscape (free, sign up) or Micromedex.

Resources for this Case

Textbooks (look left)

Access Medicine - Telling AM which book to search

Finding Guidelines or Systematic Reviews

Synthesized Resources

Videos: Cardiac Exams & Heart Sounds

National Organizations

State & National Disability

Patient Information Resources

Access Medicine - By the Book

Access Medicine - Telling it Which Book to Search

Have you tried this trick?

Do the search you want (perhaps, murmur) and then use the limits that you want - so perhaps limit to heart texts like Hurst's the Heart or Cardiovascular Physiology.

Access Medicine

Clinical Guidelines

Finding Guidelines and Systematic Reviews

National Guidelines Clearinghouse is not the only place to find some synthesized information. You could also try some of these resources.

PubMed
Be sure to use the filters on the side to look for the Acticle Type: Practice Guideline or Systematic Review .
Trip Database: Finding Guidelines
In addition to finding articles, including sustematic reviews, and Cochrane Library resources, you can use TRIP to find clinical guidelines. It also let's you search across multiple resources all at once.
Simply enter your search terms and look along the right to find the filter for Guidelines - you can then focus to US or specific US organizations.

Synthesized, decision support resources

Synthesized, Decision Support Resources

You have three that will have strengths for different questions.

Up to Date
Medscape is a good source for images, in fact, several times their images have been used by the PBL case creators. Check out what they have on heart failure.
Medscape
It will have a range of helpful sections that have both background and clinical information. Perhaps info on murmurs or heart sounds is what you need - they have the 3M Littman Stethoscope heart sounds.
Micromedex

National Organizations

National Organizations

American Heart Association
If you Google, you will find lots of info on use of antibiotics with dental procedures. All of the links should point to whose guidelines they are using. One big voice in this area is the AHA.
American College of Cardiology: Clinical Topics
Each Clinical Topic gathers the latest guidelines, news, JACC Journals articles, education, meetings and clinical images pertaining to its cardiovascular topical area.

State & National Disability

National & State Disability

To feed your discussion of disability, give these resources a quick perusal.

EDD: Employment Development Department, State of California
Learn about California benefits.
California Disability Benefits 101
Some basics on local as well as federal programs, and their differences.

MedlinePlus: Information Tool for Patients

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 about heart valves.