The SCOT Top Ten

1/5/97

There are hundreds of pediatric web sites out there. Here is a mini-review of ten of the better ones (listed in no particular order). If you would like to nominate other web sites with original content for the next edition of the SCOT Top Ten, mail me.

• Radiology Cases In Pediatric Emergency Medicine, edited by Loren G. Yamamoto, MD, MPH, Alson S. Inaba, MD, and Robert M. DiMauro, MD (Kapiolani Medical Center For Women And Children, Department Pediatrics, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI). One hunmdred cases, complete with images, histories, and teaching points. Next time you want to brush up on your image interpretation skills, try <http://www2.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pemxray/pemxray.html>.
  
  
• Physicians' Desk Reference. No more funmbling for your PDR. With a free registration for physicians, you can have access to manufacturer's information about just about any drug at <http://www.pdrnet.com/>.
  
  
• Immunization Action Coalition/Hepatitis B Coalition. Plenty of reproducible patient information about immunizations. Includes gory pictures of vaccine-preventible diseases. Quite a nice adjunct in the fight to achieve full immunzation at <http://www.immunize.org/>.
  
  
• Index of Syndromes and Their Anaesthetic Implications, from The Hospital for Sick Children, Totonto, Ontario, Canada. OK, so you've been asked to clear a child for surgery, but the child has a rare congenital disorder, and you're not sure what special risks the patient might face in the operating room. Get smart at <http://anaes.sickkids.on.ca/AnaesWeb/Green_Book/syndromes>.
  
  
• OMIM Images, a nice collection of pictures of children with congenital syndromes from Cedars Sinai Medical Center. This collection is linked to OMIM, but is also useful as a stand-alone encyclopedia of phenotypes. See <http://www.csmc.edu/genetics/omimpix/index.html>.
  
  
• Pediatric Imaging Teaching Files from Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital & Case Western Reserve University. More nice images to learn by. <http://www.uhrad.com/pedsarc.htm>.
  
  
• Pediatrics electronic pages. The on-line version of Pediatrics isn't just the on-line version of the print journal. This is a bona-fide on-line journal, with original articles that have gone through the same peer review process as the printed version <http://www.pediatrics.org>.
  
  
• Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention NHLBI/WHO Workshop Report, including guidelines for children with asthma. This pocket guide to the modern treatment of asthma should be on every primary care physician's hotlist. Bookmark it at <http://weber.u.washington.edu/d24/lgrouse/GINA_FINALS/POCKET/pocket.html#Figure 5.>.
  
  
• Manual For The Management of HIV Infections in Infants, Children and Adolescents from the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. William S. Foshee from the Medical College of Georgia has put together an excellent guide for anyone caring for HIV-infected kids. Add it to your on-line library at <http://www.mcg.edu/PedsOnL/ForHealthProf/PedAids/Index.htm>.
  
  
• Medscape's Pediatrics Topics includes cases for CME credit and peer reviewed literature you can use to catch up in your area. Worth a look at <http://www5.medscape.com/Home/Topics/pediatrics/pediatrics.mhtml>.
  
  
• MedConnect Pediatric Case of the Month. On-line CME credit is available for solving these illustrated clinical mysteries. MedConnect also has a "Pediatric News at Your Desktop" feature that is woth checking out at <http://www.medconnect.com>.
  
  

Arrrrgh! That's more than ten! Oh well, I hope you get a chance to appreciate the great things the Internet can offer the pediatrician these days. See <http://www.uab.edu/pedinfo/> for a comprehensive listing of pediatric resources on the Internet. Have fun!