Websites for Providers

Check out this list of popular websites for emergency medicine.

24/7 Addiction Med Clinician Support

The BC Centre on Substance Use 24/7 Addiction Medicine Clinician Support Line provides telephone consultation to health care providers who are involved in addiction and substance use care and treatment in BC.

Ars Informatica

Interactive Rumack-Matthew Nomogram for Acetaminophen Toxicity.

Black & Brown Skin

Showcases clinical signs of diseases on black and brown skin.

BCCH Drug Guide

BC Children’s Drug Formulary for prescribing information.

BCCH Peds Empiric Antimicrobial Guide

2016 BCCH Pediatric Empiric Antimicrobial Guide.

BC Patient Safety & Learning System

BCPSLS website provides information on Vanessa’s Law and reporting ADRs and MDIs in PSLS. Links to resources and eLearning module.

BC Point of Care Ultrasound (BC PoCUS)

Your go-to resource for point-of-care ultrasound rapid summaries and videos.

BC Poison Control Centre

Website useful for general information but specific management issues still require calling Poison Control Centre.

Canadiem

Canadian emergency medicine website with basic medical content and blog.

CDC Yellow Book - Chapter 5

Fever in returned travelers. Includes a list of all the likely diseases from each country.

Child Health BC

Child Health BC brings together provincial expertise, regional leadership and community and patient partners to improve the experience and delivery of health services for the children and youth across B.C.

Compass Mental Health

A service for primary care providers supporting children & youth with mental health and substance use concerns.

Concussion Awareness Training

The CATT its provides training for the recognition, treatment, and management of concussion for: Medical Professionals, Parents, Players, Coaches, and School Professionals.

EMCrit

Evidence-based information from the fields of critical care, resuscitation, and trauma to bedside patient care.

EM:RAP

EM:RAP is a monthly emergency medicine audio series full of CME and the latest reviews and perspectives.

Emergency Medicine Cases

Canadian website with multiple clinical resources: podcasts, blogs, cases and clinical summaries. Can obtain podcasts on mobile devices via APP.

Heartsmap tool

BCCH Behavioural and Psychiatric Tool to help assess and treat pediatric mental health issues.

IN PoCUS

Intelligent Network for Point-of-Care Ultrasound (IN PoCUS) trains rural healthcare providers in PoCUS skills, and provides wi-fi enabled handheld probes.

Lexicomp

Provides drug information, pharmacogenics database, compatibility, drug shortage info, patient education print-outs. Requires subscription. But may be accessible through your institution.

Life in the Fast Lane

Emergency medicine (primarily) and critical care blog and website based in Australia and New Zealand that contains clinical cases, ECG, toxicology, and ultrasound libraries.

Medscape

An offline resource with medical news, articles and practical guidelines for many specialties. Great for pictures of procedures but not easy to navigate.

Ortho Bullets

American website (and APP) for information on orthopaedic conditions. Aimed at orthopaedic residents and therefore focused on surgical management.

Skeptics' Guide to EM

High quality, clinically relevant, critically appraised, evidence based information. Consists of a weekly podcast free on iTunes and a blog.

SURKit: Substance Use Response Kit

A best practice substance use response toolkit that brings together the resources - both physical and non-physical - needed by ED staff to deliver quality care to patients presenting with substance use disorders

Take Home Naloxone

Tool for patients to learn how to use a Take Home Naloxone Kit. It can also be used in centres where staff members are not very familiar with dispensing a THN kit. (St. Paul’s Hospital ED Project)

Thrombosis Canada

An excellent free website focusing on thrombosis issues.

UpToDate

Requires subscription. But may be accessible through your institution.
International contributors of internal medicine summaries.

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Great, free, Ortho resource!

XrayRisk

Accurate X-ray and CT radiation doses and associated risks