Dunn RJ
For those of you interested in these sort of things, here are the webstats for The Emergency Medicine Manual Online for 2017 Total visits: 173,000 or 470 each day Pages viewed: 3.8 million – or 10,400 each day For those of you not interested in these sort of things – it was a busy year.
Both versions of the manual have just been updated with an expanded table of contents. The table of contents now contains 3 levels of topic headings when previously there were 2. The table of contents remains collapsible and expandable according to your wishes. We hope this change makes it easier for you to find exactly … Read more
We have just posted the 2000th update to the manual since September 2012 – averaging about 500 updates each year (with many more minor changes). This helps to illustrate how medicine is always changing and why it is important to keep as up to date as possible – a text book published 2 years ago … Read more
We have just noticed that a number of links from various pages on the site were broken. We think we have either fixed all of these or removed any links no longer active. Please let us know if you spot any broken links we might have missed.
We have just completed a bit of website redesign to improve the experience when using small screened devices. Some of these changes are subtle, so if you haven’t noticed they are: Adding a search box to the top right of the main menu bar Reducing the size of the main page header Reducing the size … Read more
A series of links to the segment on IV magnesium therapy in the Hypomagnesaemia page have been added to the Management of life threatening asthma, Hypertension in pregnancy and Ventricular arrhythmias pages.
Links between the Febrile child and Neonatal fever and sepsis pages have been added to aid navigation and topic review.
We are pleased to have upgraded our software to be able to provide you with a AUD$20 discount when you purchase 2 products at the same time, and AUD$40 when you purchase 3 or more products from our online store. This means that if you want to buy an online subscription and a print version … Read more
The new support section of the website has also just had a ‘FAQ’ page added, with answers to the most commonly asked questions about the function of the website added.
We have just introduced a new support system for subscribers having any difficulty with the website. You can now generate a support ticket and track all correspondence related to that issue from within the website. The support area can be found by clicking on the ‘Support’ tab in the members section (My details) of the … Read more
35 new images have been loaded into the Image of the day library.
Even wondered when the last time a particular section of the manual was last updated? Well now you will soon be able to tell because we have started adding the ‘Last modified’ date at the end of each page. This is the latest date and time any part of the page was updated. However when … Read more
The acronym SIADH has been changed to SAID on the Hyponatraemia page and throughout the rest of the manual.
Given that most of the NOACs have been around a while now and are not really new or novel, we have made the executive decision to change their nomenclature to DOACs (Direct acting oral anti-coagulants) throughout the manual. The good news for NOAC nomenclature lovers is that you can still find DOACs by entering NOAC … Read more
Links to the NOAC, heparin and warfarin pages have been added to the Management of PE and Management of DVT pages.
Hi everyone, The good news is that we have just upgraded the server on which this website sits to a faster and more powerful one. This should improve response times and enable us to manage the ever increasing amount of website traffic better in future. The bad news is that, unfortunately, the new server went … Read more
A series of links between the Cellulitis page and other relevant pages in the Dermatology section have been added.
About 20 internal links between overlapping areas in different parts of the manual have been added to aid rapid navigation between the related sections.
Two new journal scan pages have been created that contain the latest abstracts from all the journals most relevant to Emergency Medicine. One is called Emergency Medicine Journals and the other General Journals. Each has a series of tabs across the top of the page – click on the relevant tab to see the latest … Read more
The anatomy, orthopaedic and flowchart galleries have just been updated to a more contemporary format with many additional images added. All the galleries can now be accessed through the drop down menu on the front page of the website.