Website organisation

The 800th quiz question has been added to the website – and more to come!

The website will be off-line for 2 periods of up to 30 minutes sometime between 01:00 and 05:00 AEST next Wednesday 3rd September, 2014 to enable some scheduled maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

The ECG gallery has been updated and reformatted. Click on the ECG image to enlarge it and show the diagnosis. The gallery is a good way to revise a lot of different ECGs in a short space of time.

Just in case you were wondering how dynamic the online version is, we have just competed the 700th significant update (and hundreds more smaller changes) since we started counting in September 2012.

The 700th quiz question from the 44th quiz has just been added to the website. Test yourself if you really want to learn!

We know it can be hard to keep up with all the changes to The Emergency Medicine Manual Online, so to help with this from now on, we will be sending you a monthly update email. The email will contain the last 30 updates to the manual (usually about one month’s worth) with direct links to … Read more

For those of you who want to keep up with the latest updates without having to check the site, we have included a RSS feed link on the top of the left hand column.

Yesterday we had problems with the website – the navigation bars disappeared as did most of the update pages and access to the susbscribers accounts. Because of this we have had to wind back time and restore the site to a backup made at 03:00 on Monday 7/4/14.  This has just been completed. What that … Read more

A translation widget has been added to the front pages (i.e. not the whole content) of The Emergency Medicine Manual Online, enabling you to translate into 14 of the worlds most spoken languages (including Maori). Click on the “Translate” icon floating on the page, then choose the language to translate the page content into. No responsibility is taken for … Read more

The main Table of contents page has been expanded to include links to some of the additional features available only in the online version of the manual. We have done this as a number of subscribers have been unaware that the online version also contains quizzes, calculators, image galleries and Journal scans. All existing links to these pages … Read more

With the addition of the Blood gas quiz Part 1, there are now more than 600 questions in the quiz bank, with at least 15 questions being added to it each month.

The quiz pages have been reorganised to create more direct links to the quizzes to speed up page loading and navigation. There are now 550 quiz questions available with more being added every month.

To facilitate navigation, the Hand injuries page has been subdivided to create Hand anatomy, Digital amputations and Tendon infections and pressure gun injuries pages.

The last year has been a significant one for the online version of the manual. The number of subscribers has doubled and web activity for 2013 has tripled. In the last year there were over 35,000 visits, 350,000 pages (that’s 220 entire books worth) downloaded and over 1 million hits. Currently about half a book … Read more

The Basic life support page has been divided to create a new page called Cardiac arrest. This page deals with the general aspects of cardiac arrest, whilst Basic life support concentrates on BLS delivery.

Submandibular infection (Luwig’s angina) and acute necrotising ulcerative gingivostomatitis (Vincent’s angina) have moved from the Oral conditions page to the Dental emergencies page

The section on contrast enhancement with cranial CT has been moved from the Coma and altered mental state page to the How to read the head CT page.

The upgrade of the server website is now complete and, so far, everything appears to be going well. Please let us know if you notice any faults or anything unusual with the site, especially any dropouts of the search function.

For anyone interested in minutia, here are the following facts regarding the website. It is comprised of 1885 pages. There are a total of 957,000 words There are 33,226 different words The average number of words per page is 508 The average number of unique words per page is 18 Quite a lot of stuff … Read more

Having just sent out an email telling all subscribers that the website search function wasn’t working, the next thing we tried fixed it! Having said that, it is unclear what caused the problem in the first place, so recurrence is a real possibility. The search function places the greatest strain on the resources of the … Read more