Computing and Technology | Handheld and Mobile Computing | Associations and Colleges | Specialist Societies | Medical Databases | International Anaesthesia Web Sites | Journals | Miscellaneous |
Computing and Technology
- Auratus Anaesthesia Logbook
UK website with Anaesthesia Logbook for PC and Palm OS. - BAREMA British Anaesthetic and Respiratory Equipment Manufacturers Association
- British Medical Informatics Society
- Connecting for Health
Formerly NHSIA, the implementation arm of NPfIT - Derby Anaesthetic Logbook Project
- E-Health Insider
A weekly digest of e-health in the UK - ECDL European Computer Driving Licence
- ESCTAIC
European Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - HIMMS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the premier professional member organisation exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology. - Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
- Japan Society of Technology in Anesthesia
Hope your Japanese is better than mine :D - Jet 5
Anaesthetic software including a consultant and trainee portfolio - Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare
Access to the full text of back issues (203-205) is free. - NHS Health Informatics Community
- NHS IT Info
These pages constitute a dossier of information relating to concerns over the current progress and direction of NHS Connecting for Health's National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) - Online Anaesthesia Portfolio
Online logbok and training portfolio Instant statistical report creation Import and export entries instantly - Open EHR
"openEHR is an international not-for-profit Foundation, working towards making the interoperable, life-long electronic health record a reality and improving health care in the information society." - Practice Statistics Logbook
The PSL is a spreadsheet based logbook that is available online or available to download free of charge. It is intended to be used as a tool to find shortfalls in an ODP's practice by measuring statistics of practice over a period of time, and therefore meets the Health Professions Council standards for CPD - Professional Portfolio
Professional Portfolio Manager for Anaesthetists, supported by SCATA. - Synaptec Software
Home of RCA Logbook - UKCHIP
The UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals (UKCHIP) was formed in 2002 to promote professionalism in Health Informatics (HI). It operates a voluntary register of HI professionals who agree to work to clearly defined standards. - Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook
- www.trainof4.com
Anaesthesia Events, Courses and CPD
Handheld and Mobile Computing
- Aether Palm
Anaesthetic software for Palm - AnaesthesiaUK
Educational site with questions downloadable to your PDA - Compendium of Regional Anaesthesia for Palm and Pocket PC
Free conversion of the Compendium of Regional Anaesthesia for Palm and Pocket PC based handhelds by Jim Berrington. Read more at the Medi-Cal website at www.medi-cal.org.uk. Requires iSilo document reader from www.isilo.com. - Doctor's Gadgets
Information for Doctors who use PDAs - Ectopic Brain
Links to Medical Palm websites - ePocrates
Popular free formulary for Palm - GasPalm
Anaesthetic software for Palm and Pocket PC - HanDBase
Popular database for Palm and Pocket PC - iMobileMedic.com
We're a new company which has created iGasLog - an anaesthetic logbook which fulfils all RCA requirements for data capture and reporting. Its made for the iPhone and will be available from the Apple App store from Nov 2008. - iSilo
Popular database for Palm and Pocket PC - JFile
Popular database for Palm and Pocket PC - Medi-Cal Online
Anaesthetic software for Palm and Pocket PC - Medical Pocket PC
- Microsoft Pocket PC
- Palm
- PDA Consult
PDA Discussion Forum - PDAmd
Information and software for handhelds - Pilot DB
Free database for the Palm - Psion
- Psion General Hospital
- The Simpson Handbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia for Palm and Pocket PC
Free conversion of the Simpson Handbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia for Palm and Pocket PC based handhelds by Jim Berrington. Read more at the Medi-Cal website at www.medi-cal.org.uk. Requires iSilo document reader from www.isilo.com. - Vaper
Logbook for PalmOS-based PDAs which is now in its third major revision. It allows rapid data entry and on-the-spot analysis of casemix/procedures performed/ complications encountered.
Associations and Colleges
- Association of Anaesthetists
- British Medical Association
- British National Formulary (BNF)
- General Medical Council (UK)
- Irish College of Anaesthesia
- Modernising Medical Careers
- Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board
- Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Royal College of Physicians London
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Royal Society of Medicine
Specialist Societies
- Anaesthesia Research Trust
- Anaesthetists in Management
- Association of Burns and Reconstructive Anaesthetists
- Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists (ACTA)
- Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists
- British Association of Day Surgery
- British Association of Immediate Care (BASICS)
- British Medical Acupuncture Society
- British Medical Informatics Society
- British Society of Ophthalmic Anaesthetists
- European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists (EACTA)
- European Society of Regional Anaesthesia
- Intensive Care Society
- Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society
- Neuroanaesthesia Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Obstetric Anaesthetists Association
- Resuscitation Council UK
- Society for Technology in Anesthesia
The Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA) is an international organization of physicians, engineers, students and others with an interest in anesthesia-related technologies. Membership is open to all who are interested. The journal, Anesthesia & Analgesia is STA's official publication. A quarterly newsletter, Interface, is published and available online. - The Anaesthetic Research Society
- The Pain Society
- The UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia
The website of the UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia - a forum for information, education and debate about intravenous anaesthesia, based in the United Kingdom. - Vascular Anaesthesia Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Medical Databases
- Entrez PubMed
Still one of the best after all these years, and the SCATA webmaster's favourite, in spite of the French connection. - NHS National Library for Health
The National Library for Health (NLH) aims to be the best health library and information service in the world. [sic]
International Anaesthesia Web Sites
- AnestCadiz
AnestCadiz, Andalusian website of Anaesthesiology (Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, University Hospital “Puerta del Mar” of Cádiz), is a non-profitable project set up in mid-2004 exclusively aimed at health professionals. - evidencebasedanaesthesia.com
website designed to view and discuss Evidence based anaesthesia, medical evidences, current guidelines & review articles relating to practise in anaesthesia & critical care medicine. To guide and be guided by the best available information. To further the cause of evidence based practise of anaesthesia & critical care.
Journals
- Anaesthesia and Analgesia
- Anaesthesiology
- BJA - British Journal of Anaesthesia
- BMJ - British Medical Journal
- British Journal of Healthcare Computing
- Critical Care Medicine
- Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare
Access to the full text of back issues (203-205) is free. - Lancet
Miscellaneous
- Doctors.net
- Hospital Doctor
- John Powell's Web Site
This is the website of a lovable but slightly eccentric Englishman (says my son Tim). If I'm not star-gazing in the dead of night or pottering along winding canals with Isabel on our narrowboat, I'm at home endlessly revising my autobiography-cum-history of anaesthesia.
