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Books Listed by Clinical Specialty

 

A - Z  Listing of Books

Alcohol & Drug Dependence
Anaesthesiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Cardiology
Dermatology
Drug Therapy / Pharmacology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics

Haematology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Intensive Care
Maxillo-Facial
Medicine
Nephrology
Neurology
Nursing
Nutrition

Obstetrics, Midwifery, Gynaecology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Otorhinolaryngology
Paediatrics
Pain / Palliative Care
Pathology
Psychiatry / Psychology

Radiology
Rehabilitation
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology
Surgery
Urology
Wound Management

General Reference / Collections

RPH Catalogue

Assessing Fitness to Drive

Australian Government Publication Information

Australian Labour Law Reporter

BMJ Learning
Register for access to free modules

Books@Ovid
Browse 83 individual titles

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations (Jablonski's)

DynaMed
A clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care

Educator's Reference Desk

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

The First 4 Minutes: Understanding the Selection & Interview Process (only from within Royal Perth Hospital)

Free Books 4 Doctors

Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care, 2005

Handbook on Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canadian Medical Association)

How to Read a Paper

Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations

Library Catalogues

MDconsult
A searchable collection of clinical textbooks, journals & the Clinics

MedCalc 3000 Medical Reference and Decision Support Tools
Tools include: Unit & Dose Converter; Math Calculator; Equations; MultiCalcs and Clinical Criteria Decision Trees

Medical Algorithms Project
Requires registration - free

Medical Directory of Australia
Free for Australian Medical Professionals and Administrators - requires registration

Medical Masterclass (click on Login)
NB - single user access only. Please contact the Library for a login if this license is in use.

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopaedia

National Academies Press
More than 2,500 books online free

PubMed Bookshelf

RPH Policies and Procedures Manual (only from within Royal Perth Hospital)

Statistics at Square One

StatRef Collection

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

UpToDate   Please note that the Library's license for UpToDate only allows for use from within the hospital.

Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice (the JAMA Articles)
Canadian Centres for Health Evidence

West of Subiaco: a history of the Shenton Park Campus

Books Listed by Clinical Specialty

Alcohol & Drug Dependence

Alcohol and Other Drugs Handbook

Anaesthesiology

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Australasian Anaesthesia

Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital

Clinical Anesthesiology

Miller's Anesthesia

Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia

Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy Atlases

Anatomy & Physiology Made Incredibly Easy!

Anatomy TV

Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology

Muscle Atlas

Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

SlideWorld.org

Cardiology

ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy!

Braunwald's Heart Disease: a Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiac Nursing

Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Easy!

Cardiovascular Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach (Goldberger)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (Crawford)

ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy!

ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace - Alan E Lindsay Center

ECG Library

EKG Plain and Simple

Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy!

Hursts the Heart (Fuster)

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park)

Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Dermatology

Clinical Dermatology (Habif)

Dermatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Sauer's Manual of Skin Diseases

Drug Therapy / Pharmacology

About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Information Resource

AHFS Drug Information

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Antibiotic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Australian Immunisation Handbook

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

Australian Medicines Handbook

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzung)

Cardiovascular Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic Therapy: A Chemotherapy Handbook

Clinical Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!

Compounding Sterile Preparations

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Dermatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Developmental Disability Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure: Dosing Guidelines for Adults and Children

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (Therapeutic Guidelines)

DrugPoints® System

Emergency Topics (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Endocrinology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Nursing Considerations

Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy!

Gastrointestinal Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Shannon)

Handbook of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances

Handbook on Injectable Drugs (Trissel)

I.V. Therapy Made Incredibly Easy!

King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Medication Administration Made Incredibly Easy!

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Micromedex (Drugs, Poisoning, Toxicology information)

MIMS online

Neurology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!

Oral and Dental Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia. Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Palliative Care Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach

Poisons Standard 2009
this Standard provides the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons No. 24

Psychotropic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Review of Natural Products

Rheumatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits

Stockley's Drug Interactions

Therapeutic Guidelines
Includes:  Analgesic, Antibiotic, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastrointestinal, Neurology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, Developmental Disability

Trissel (Handbook on Injectable Drugs)

Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons No. 24 (Poisons Standard 2009)

USP DI: Vol I, Drug Information for the Health Care Professional

Emergency Medicine

Australian Resuscitation Council Manual of Guidelines

Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (Harwood-Nuss')

Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (Roberts)

Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli)

Emergency Medicine Procedures

Emergency Topics (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine

Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green)

Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Trauma (Moore)

Wilderness Medicine (Auerbach)

Endocrinology

Endocrinology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Larsen)

Gastroenterology

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (Grendell)

Gastrointestinal Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Maingot's Abdominal Operations

Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease

Textbook of Gastroenterology

Geriatrics

Geriatric Medicine, an Evidence Based Approach

Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (Requires registration - free)

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Practice of Geriatrics (Duthie)

Reichel's Care of the Elderly

Haematology

Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice (Hoffman)

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Williams Hematology

Immunology

Australian Immunisation Handbook

Manual of Allergy and Immunology

Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice (Adkinson)

Infectious Diseases

Antibiotic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Antisepsis, Disinfection, and Sterilization: Types, Action, and Resistance

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Infectious Disease (Wilson)

Diseases: a Nursing Process Approach to Excellent Care

Infectious Diseases (Cohen & Powderly)

Johns Hopkins Hospital 2004 Guide to Medical Care of Patients With HIV Infection

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett)

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease

Reese & Betts' A Practical Approach to Infectious Diseases

Intensive Care

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (Bongard)

High Acuity Nursing

ICU Book

Principles of Critical Care

Maxillo-Facial

Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment

Oral and Dental Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Primary Preventive Dentistry

Medicine

5-Minute Clinical Consult

AAFP [American Academy of Family Physicians] Conditions A to Z

ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Goldman)

Clinical Evidence

CME Centre (Continuing Medical Education from MD Consult)

Conn's Current Therapy (Rakel)

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (Tierney)

DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (DeGowin)

DynaMed
A clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care

Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (Taylor)

Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment

Ferri's Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient

Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Access Medicine)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (STAT!Ref)

Hospital Medicine

Integrative Medicine (Rakel)

Living Healthier and Longer - What Works and What Doesn't

Manual of Family Practice

Medical Masterclass (click on Login)
NB - single user access only. Please contact the Library for a login if this license is in use.

Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy!

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Merck Manuals

Osler Medical Handbook

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine

Pathophysiology Made Incredibly Easy!

Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient (Ferri)

Primary Care Medicine

Textbook of Family Medicine (Rakel)

UpToDate   Please note that the Library's license for UpToDate only allows for use from within the hospital.

Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics

Nephrology

Brenner & Rector's The Kidney

Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract

Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure: Dosing Guidelines for Adults and Children

Neurology

Adam's & Victor's Principles of Neurology

Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing

Merritt's Neurology

Neurology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Textbook of Clinical Neurology (Goetz)

Nursing

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Cardiac Nursing

Clinical Guide to Skin and Wound Care

Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing

Competency Standards for Nurses in General Practice (ANF)

Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests - with Nursing Implications

Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills (Altman)

Diseases: a Nursing Process Approach to Excellent Care

Effective Leadership & Management in Nursing

Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Nursing Considerations

Foundations of Nursing Research

Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice

Fundamentals of Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Handbook of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances

Handbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing

High Acuity Nursing

Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice

Laboratory Tests & Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses

Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice

Lippincott's Nursing Procedures

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

Manual of Cancer Nursing

Medical-Surgical Nursing Care

Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Nurses Guide to Clinical Procedures

Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy!

Nursing Care Plans and Documentation

Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice

Nursing Procedures Made Incredibly Easy!

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach

Wound Management: Principles and Practice

Nutrition

Nutrition Made Incredibly Easy!

Obstetrics, Midwifery, Gynaecology

Comprehensive Gynecology (Stenchever)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (DeCherney)

Danforth's Obstetrics & Gynecology

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Gabbe)

Williams Obstetrics

Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide

Oncology

Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology (Devita, Hellman & Rosenberg)

Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic Therapy: A Chemotherapy Handbook

Clinical Oncology (Abeloff)

Devita, Hellman & Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology

Manual of Cancer Nursing

National Cancer Institute [NIH Institutes of Health]

Ophthalmology

Duane's Ophthalmology

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide - NSW Health, February 2007

Manual of Ocular Diagnosis and Therapy

Ophthalmology (Yanoff)

Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology

Orthopaedics

5-Minute Orthopaedic Consult

Adult and Pediatric Spine

Atlas of Limb Prosthetics

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics (Canale)

Chapman's Orthopaedic Surgery

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (Skinner)

DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Handbook of Fractures

Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, & Intervention

Orthopaedic Imaging: A Practical Approach

Rockwood & Green's Fractures in Adults

Rockwood & Wilkins' Fractures in Children

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green)

Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: the Anatomic Approach

Otorhinolaryngology

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery

Current Diagnosis & Treatment In Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery (Cummings)

Paediatrics

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (Hay)

Harriet Lane Handbook: a Manual for Pediatric House Officers (Johns Hopkins)

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (Kliegman)

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Oski's Pediatrics

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia. Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

Pediatric Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

Rockwood & Wilkins' Fractures in Children

Rudolph's Pediatrics

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green)

Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pain / Palliative Care

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Palliative Care Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Palliative Medicine (Walsh)

Pathology

AFIP Atlases of Pathology
Click on 'GO!' in the bottom right of the page to login, and then choose 'Virtual Bookshelf' from list on left

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (Henry)

Diagnostic Tests Made Incredibly Easy!

Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests - with Nursing Implications

Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests

Laboratory Tests & Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses

Logic of Laboratory Medicine

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Psychiatry / Psychology / Mental Health

Download of Psychiatry

DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

ECT Guide: The Chief Psychiatrist's Guidelines for the Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Western Australia 2006

Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry (Stern)

Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy

Psychiatric Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Psychiatric Secrets (Jacobson)

Psychotropic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Review of General Psychiatry (Goldman)

Radiology

Essentials of Radiology (Mettler)

Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging

Orthopaedic Imaging: A Practical Approach

Paul and Juhl's Essentials of Radiologic Imaging

Rehabilitation

Atlas of Limb Prosthetics

Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Frontera)

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review 2004

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

Spinal Cord Injury - Expected Outcomes: What You Should Know
This series of eight guides describes outcomes according to level of spinal cord injury (C1-3, C4, C5, C6, C7-8, T1-9, T10-L1 and L2-S5)

Sports Injuries: Mechanisms, Prevention, Treatment

Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques

Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation

Respiratory Medicine

Breath Sounds Made Incredibly Easy!

Respiratory Care Made Incredibly Easy!

Respiratory Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Murray & Nadel)

Rheumatology

Arthritis and Allied Conditions

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology (Firestein)

Rheumatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Surgery

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Way)

Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice

Maingot's Abdominal Operations

Operative Surgery Manual (Khatri)

Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery (Townsend)

Schwartz's Principles of Surgery

Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice (Greenfield's)

Urology

Campbell-Walsh Urology (Wein)

Handbook of Urology: Diagnosis & Therapy

Smith’s General Urology (Tanagho)

Wound Management

Clinical Guide to Skin and Wound Care

Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy!

Wound Management: Principles and Practice

 

Page last updated / reviewed: 23 November 2009
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