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A & E Subject Guide

Some Useful Class Marks

  • Acute Medicine            WB 105
  • ECG                                     WG 140
  • Emergency Nursing     WY 154
  • Emergency Radiology WN 100
  • Emergency Medicine WB105
  • Hypertension                WG 340
  • Pediatric Emergency  WS 205
  • Resuscitation                WA 292
  • Trauma                          WO 700

Some Useful Books in the Library

  • Acute medical emergencies : the practical approach
  • Accident and emergencies in children
  • Ecgs for the emergency physician
  • Accident and emergency: diagnosis and management
  • Accident and emergency medicine
  • Accident and emergency nursing principles for practice
  • Accident and emergency : theory into practice

* Check the Library Catalogue for more books

Current Print journals

  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • British Medical Journal
  • Critical Care Nurse
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Lancet
  • Pediatrics

* Check full list of current  journals 

Some Online Journals

  • Emergency Medicine Australia
  • Emergency Medical Journal
  • Emergency Medicine Nurse
  • Heart
  • Heart & Lung: Journal of Acute Critical Care
  • Journal of Medical Ethics

* Check here for more online Journals (login with NHS Athens, If you don’t have NHS Athens account register now )

Databases

Some databases available are (login with NHS Athens)

  • Medline
  • Emabse
  • Cinahl
  • HMIC
  • AMED
  • Cochrane library

Some Useful Websites

Patricia Bowen Library Current Awareness Portal – A&E Update

Health Information for patients

NHS Evidence

The College of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine on the Web

Bestbets

Library News & What’s new

Upcoming Library Training Sessions 

Library Relocation and Book Sale Announcement

Later this year, the West Middlesex Hospital Library will be relocating to a smaller space within the Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC). As a result of this move, the library will be selling a large portion of its book stock.

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Library Relocation: Print journal holdings available for free

 The Westmid Library will move to the new Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC) building later this year. Because the new space is much smaller, we will be disposing of our print journal collection. Before that happens, we invite staff, teams, and departments to take any individual journals or entire sets from our holdings free of charge. For a complete list of available journals, please contact us. You are also welcome to visit the library in the Education Centre to browse our print collection. We are open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Health & Wellbeing Collection

Our wellbeing collection has a range of self-help and mood-boosting-books for library members to borrow. Books includes:

  • Mindfulness
  • Stress and Anxiety Management
  • Emotional Resilience
  • Meditation
  • Yoga, Pilates & Tai Chi
  • Healthy Eating

Access full list of  Health & Wellbeing Book Collection

We also have a range of resources to help staff to relax and stay healthy, including on-going jigsaw puzzles, colouring books and colouring pencils to help staff to relax and de-stress, so feel free to pop in and do a bit of jigsaw and colouring.

Board Games

We have a collection of educational board games which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. Below board games recently added to our existing collection.

Menopause Game

Team resilience game

Dysphagia game

Hydration game

Mental health at work  Map game

Mental health awareness

LGBT+ in the workplace game

Safeguarding game

If you’re interested in borrowing these board games for your CPD or training or if you have any questions please email chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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