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The familiar resource of Access Medicine is a great places to give you background on preseptal (periorbital) cellulitis as well as other background topics.
Resources for this Case
Textbooks (look left)
Eye Exam - Multimedia Resources
National & State Organizations - Healthcare in Prisons & NEI
PubMed Clinical Queries - 2 Tips: Target the Prognosis Literature & Google + Pubmed
Point of Care/Decision Support Tools
Always a helpful resource with the more clinically-focused look up topics. Each resource has a different perspective on how to repond to the search terms you use. For example, a search for Red Eye in the following resources brings up a variety of resources.
Eye Exam : Jove Clinical Exam Videos
If you need more details about conducting an eye exam or wonder what you might see with the ophthalmoscope, we have some videos for you.
Delivering Bad News
By now, you have had several situations where you might have discussed the process of delivering bad news. Whether it is your look up topic this week or not, it is a good idea to be prepared for this situation since the clerkships are coming up. What if this were a real case? Should you deliver the news? Get your mentor? In what setting should it be delivered, if possible?
Where would you look up this info? Well, Access Medicine has the book Behavioral Medicine : A Guide for Clinical Practice which has a chapter on this. However, if you search for delivering bad news there are several books - Hospital medicine, Patient interviewing, & Critcal care medicine - you will find some additional info that is very helpful.
Point of Care Tools
Perhaps not the resources you were expecting, but both DynaMed Plus & Up to Date have sections on this - findable with the search delivering bad news, but their sections have different titles. They are an interesting mix that compliment each other this time. Up to Date is theoretical and DynaMed is focused on the practical (focus on palliative) care and actions to take with the patient.
National & State Correctional Health Resources
Using PubMed's Clinical Queries
Take the fast track to the literature with the strongest evidence. Clinical Queries is a special search through the articles in PubMed that meet specific criteria and the best part is that you don't have to worry about how to make it happen except to enter an initial search term or two and selecting settings from the available options. From there, PubMed applies a variety of pre-configured filters to give you a list of pertinent results.
Check it out for this week's case. Perhaps your question is about the seriousness or even survivability of the orbital mucormycosis. Clinical Queries has a preset term for that -- Prognosis -- so you don't need to figure out if survival or prognosis is a better search term. You can get to Clinical Queries from the main PubMed page -- look under the PubMed search box in the Find section.
Enter your search terms - for example:
orbital mucormycosis
Then run the search to bring up the options to specifiy how to refine this topic.
Select Category: "Prognosis"
Set Scope: "Narrow"
Each of the articles has a prognosis component.
Getting to PubMed with a Google Search
Sometimes, PubMed is a little difficult to figure out how to best search and you wish for a way to search that was as easy as searching Google. Sometimes, the ability to type in the question you have is your preference, so if you have the question of, Why are diabetics more vulnerable to infections, then do you know how to focus the search to give you good results/articles (without using Google Scholar)?
Here's an easy tip -- simply add NCBI to your search query
That will retrieve PubMed results as well as articles from the full-text repository known as PMC, for example:
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 for cellulitis.