Website to look up medical questions

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Am wondering if anyone has come across a website to look up questions. For example if u want to look up the symptoms of a heat stroke or review how to apply a tourniquet etc. Currently I reference my text book, but there's gotta be a website geared for EMS to use.

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I like Medscape.
 
quick and dirty: medscape
benefits: free, phone app
cons: owned and operated by webMD, not a lot of citation

evidence based: uptodate, dynamed
benefits: evidence based, unbiased, loaded with citations, summaries of RCTs,
great graphics
cons: no apps, cost money (lots of it)

for medications: epocrates

for skillz: youtube
 
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If you have some education, google your question and add "NIH" to it. (Many NIH results will be for laypersons but some are real scientific papers).

Otherwise, google it and add "Mayo Clinic" or "edu".

Always talk to your doctor about stuff pertaining to you or a loved one's health, though. It's very painful to play Dr House, MD with your kid or Granmaw and find out it really wasn't "paraneoplastic syndrome".
 
Thanks all. Medscape seems like the best option. Uptodate seems like a paid option and is maybe for more of a hospital setting while I need it as an EMT just to do a quick review on the way to calls.
 
Babydoe said:
Thanks all. Medscape seems like the best option. Uptodate seems like a paid option and is maybe for more of a hospital setting while I need it as an EMT just to do a quick review on the way to calls.
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Rather than looking to review things you already know why not advance your knowledge? There's more to medicine than signs, symptoms and skills.
 
Robb said:
Rather than looking to review things you already know why not advance your knowledge? There's more to medicine than signs, symptoms and skills.
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Robb

Totally agree. I try looking up the meds that the patient is taking as well as understanding what medics are doing. If you have any specific ideas or suggestions on how to advance your knowledge that can be accomplished when riding on a day to day basis I'd love to hear them!

Thanks
 
For day-to-day on the box, take what you're doing with medications, and do it with disease processes. If you can, follow up at the hospitals to see what the patients were diagnosed with and what kind of treatments they received from the ED.

For general advancement, go back to school. Chemistry, Biology, and A&P are all good starts.
 
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