The following are textbooks of possible interest and are available either in print or online.
Clinical Dermatology - a color guide to diagnosis & treatment by 
Introduction to Clinical Infectious Diseases by 
Textbook of Critical Care by Not finding what you need? Having trouble using one of our resources? Please let us know.
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| Many of your questions this week are best answered in some of our textbooks and your course texts. Look along the left side of the page and below for possible online and print books that might help you find your answers. |
Resources for this case include: Textbook Suggestions (look left) Re-Finding News about Sepsis - can you find it? Dr. Marsh's Tip -- Read NEJM Background Resources - Think AccessMedicine National Organizations - Infections & MAT Point of Care Tools -- Clinical Questions Patient Resouces -- MedlinePlus |
1) Changing Consensus about Sepsis
In the beginning of 2016, information was published about a consensus in some changes of the definition of sepsis and septic shock. It was published in 2016 in JAMA.
This is an example of something that you might hear quite often - but can you find it in PubMed? Here are a couple of tips:
2) Dr. Marsh's Tip -- Read the New England Journal of Medicine
There are several tools for keeping up to date on the medical literature. We have a nice one called Browzine, or you could setting up TOC alerts from a journal itself or do that in databases, or use the free tools like DocPhin or ReadCube.
So here is another example of partial information and you need to find it again. The NEJM in 2017 had a couple of pertinent articles for today's topic on sepsis. Can you find it using the tip above?
Finding Drug Information
UCSD has several drug resources for looking up drug interactions, drugs appropriate for specific conditions, and specific details about an individual drug or a class of drugs. If you want to see the mechanism of action for Cephalexin then these would be great places to check out.
Background - or Foundational - Information
As might seem obvious, the books available in Access Medicine will be great tools for rounding out your understanding of the types of skin infections and more.
National Organizations
Just a couple of key items this week.
Point of Care, Clinical Tools
If your question is less background and more clinical, then one of the point of care tools will provide a more clinical perspective on your question.
Not sure where to direct your patients to good reliable information? Have them check out MedlinePlus - www.medlineplus.gov. It is a great place to find consumer-friendly materials along with directories, a dictionary & encyclopedia, drug info, videos, and more. Take a look and see what you find - try skin infections.
