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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update November 23 2020

Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin including feature articles across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical topics

Knowledge Update

Library Services' Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin which includes feature articles across a wide range of topics, new physical and e-books in the Library, and websites of interest.

Access to full text articles is available both on and offsite using a St Vincent's login.

St. Vincent's Hospital staff wishing to be notified when a new issue has been published can join the notification list by contacting Jeremy.Taylor@svha.org.au 

Feature Articles

The prevalence and impact of unprofessional behaviour among hospital workers: a survey in seven Australian hospitals. SVHM
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: November 10 Full text

The unbreakable bond: the mental health benefits and challenges of pet ownership for people experiencing homelessness.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2020: November 16 Full text

Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma.
Thorax:2020: November 16 Full text

Deaf and hard of hearing awareness training: a mentor‐led workshop.
Clinical Teacher:2020: November 18 Full text

Ketamine as a rescue treatment for severe acute behavioural disturbance: A prospective prehospital study.
Emergency Medicine Australasian:2020: November 17 Full text

Advanced reperfusion strategies for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and refractory ventricular fibrillation (ARREST): a phase 2, single centre, open-label, randomised controlled trial.
Lancet:2020: November 13 Full text

The Haemostasis Traffic Light, a user‐centred coagulation management tool for acute bleeding situations: a simulation‐based randomised dual‐centre trial.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 19 Full text

Real-time prediction of acute kidney injury in hospitalized adults: implementation and proof of concept.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases:2020:76(6):806-14 Full text

Intelligent checklists improve checklist compliance in the intensive care unit: a prospective before-and-after mixed-method study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: November 17 Full text

An electronically delivered, patient-activation tool for intensification of medications for chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: the EPIC-HF Trial.
Circulation:2020: November 17 Full text

The End Unexplained Cardiac Death (EndUCD) Registry for young Australian sudden cardiac arrest. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: November 13 Full text

Exercise interventions are delayed in critically ill patients: a cohort study in an Australian tertiary intensive care unit. AUS
Physiotherapy:2020:190:75-84 
Full text

The therapeutic management of back pain with and without sciatica in the emergency department: a systematic review.
Physiotherapy:2020:190:13-32 Full text

Sigh in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome: the PROTECTION pilot randomized clinical trial.
Chest:2020: November 13 Full text

The impact of an online adult headache guideline on headache referrals to neurology clinic.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: November 16 Full text

Intestinal ultrasound as firstline investigation in low risk gastrointestinal symptoms: a new model of care. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: November 16 Full text

Incidence of venous thromboembolism and bleeding among hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Chest:2020: November 17 Full text

COVID-19 test correlation between nasopharyngeal swab and bronchoalveolar lavage in asymptomatic patients.
Chest:2020: November 17 Full text

Recombinant zoster vaccine is efficacious and safe in frail individuals.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: November 16 
Full text

Impact of repeated yearly vaccination on immune responses to influenza vaccine in an elderly population.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020:48(12):1422-25 
Full text

PROSPECT guideline for tonsillectomy: systematic review and procedure‐specific postoperative pain management recommendations.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 17 
Full text

Patient perspectives on active vs. passive music therapy for cancer in the inpatient setting: a qualitative analysis.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2020: November 19 
Full text

NSHQS Standards - Live Literature Searches updated

The NSQHS Standards - Live Literature Searches have recently been updated.

These searches have been created an expert group of Australian Librarians for use by anyone using the free Pubmed interface and cover 13 topics across 7 NSQHS Standards:

  • Partnering with consumers (Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making new topics)
  • Preventing and controlling health care associated infections
  • Medication safety
  • Comprehensive care
  • Communicating for safety
  • Blood Management
  • Recognising and responding to acute deterioration

Note that these work best using the Chrome broswer (not Internet Explorer)

Also note that you can easily see if full text is available via SVHM Library in two ways:

Install the LibKey Nomad browser extension for Chrome to connect to the Library's Browzine access to journals (see our Browzine FAQ for details)

Open the SVHM custom interface to Pubmed before opening a search:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=iausvhmlib

New Library Trial - Access Medicine

The Library is currently trialling McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine, an online portal of books and a multimedia library, including procedural videos.

You can also create a personal account to save CME tests and links to favourite resources.

Some of the well known books on Access Medicine include:

  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
  • Goodman & Gilman’s: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
  • Hurst’s The Heart
  • Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine
  • LANGE Current Diagnosis and Treatment Series