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Anaesthetics Subject Guide

Some Useful Class Marks

General Surgery        WO 175

Anaesthesia                WO 200

Anaesthetics               WO 18.2

Operative Surgery     WO 500

Surgery in Special      WO 925

Transplantation          WO 660

Some Books In the Library

  • Anaesthesia and intensive care A-Z: an encyclopaedia of principles and practice
  • Anaesthesia OSCE
  • Anatomy for anaesthetists
  • Anesthesia and co-existing disease handbook
  • Atlas of anesthesia : Volume 2 – Scientific principles of anesthesia
  • Basic physics and measurement in anaesthesia
  • Clinical data interpretation anaesthesia and intensive care
  • Clinical practice of regional anesthesia
  • Key topics in anaesthesia

* Check the Library Catalogue for more books

Current journals

  • British Medical Journal
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Health Service Journal (online access, ask library staff)
  • Lancet
  • New England Journal of Medicine

* Check full list of current  journals 

Online Journals

  • Anaesthesia and Analgesia
  • Anaesthesiology
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia

* 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
  • Embase
  • British Nursing Index
  • Cinahl
  • Cochrane library

Some Useful Websites

Patricia Bowen Library Current Awareness Portal

Health information for patients

NHS Evidence

American Society of Anaesthesiologists

Association of Anaesthetics of Great Britain and Ireland

Obstetric Anaesthetists Association

Royal College of Anaesthetists

Library News & What’s new

Upcoming Library Training Sessions 

Staff  Publications  

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  • Increase the visibility and discoverability of your publications (including conference posters, presentations and case studies)?
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  • Showcase the work of our Trust?

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If you need more information about the repository contact: chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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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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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