Influenza Update

With reports the past weeks of daycare center closings, sidelined football players, and sniffling sorority girls, clearly Louisiana is not immune from H1N1 outbreaks. As of August 17, 2009, Louisiana reports 449 confirmed cases and 1 related death (also in New Orleans) from the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus, aka the Swine Flu.

For local & state information on influenza, visit www.FluLa.com, from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. There you will find weekly statistics and public health updates, as well as flu information for patients in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Clinicians can also access an Online Training Course on local flu preparedness, testing protocols, regional OPH offices, and info from the Louisiana Office of Public Health Lab like the Lab 96 form and instructions for swine flu testing.

For national swine flu information, the CDC is always your best bet: http://cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

Nursing journals upgrade at 9AM today

Nursing journals we subscribe to through Ovid will be undergoing an upgrade today at 9AM. If you are in an OvidSP or Nursing@Ovid session at that time, your session will continue uninterrupted until you log out or your session times out.

Please let us know if you encounter any problems with access.

More info.

ScienceDirect – Access to PDFs

ScienceDirect seems to be having a nation wide problem. Attempting to access a PDF article will result in an error message. We have no timeline for this to be corrected. ~EDIT @ 1:30 p.m. Progress of sorts? The error message is gone, but now SD is asking for a login…which we don’t have. Hoping it will be fixed by later this afternoon. ~Edit~ @ 1:55 p.m. Elsevier has corrected the problem; all SD subscribed PDFs should once again be available.

3 Resource Guides Updated

The following Resource Guides have been updated:

Resource Guides are instructional tools to introduce users to basic information. If you think the Library should add a Resource Guide, please let us know.

Mac wireless update

Did you know that LSUHSC-NO is a PC institution?

For Mac users, this can present a problem. At the moment, instructions are not available for configuring a Mac or an iPhone to get onto the LSUHSC secure wireless network.

However, you can always plug into our network from any of the laptop ports around the Library and Library Commons. Each of our study rooms on the fourth floor, the study carrels near the Registrar’s office and areas on the 3rd and 5th floors provide blue network ports so you can plug in. Here’s a handy map! In the Library Commons, check underneath the glass display cases for blue network ports.

Don’t have a network cable handy? We got you covered. You can check out a network cable at the Circulation Desk.

Be Prepared – Storm Season 2009

I must admit 3 named storms popping up over this past weekend made me a bit jumpy. Here are local resources on disaster preparedness to help make sure we’re all ready in the event of a storm:
LSUHSC Information
   Chancellor’s Memorandum 51: Policy on Weather Related Emergency Procedures for LSUHSC-New Orleans
   LSUHSC-NO Emergency Alert System

Parish Information
   Jefferson Parish & its Emergency Alert Service
   New Orleans & its Emergency Alert Service
   St. Bernard Parish
   St. Tammany Parish

State Information
   Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness & its Evacuation Guides

New Books on Display to Kick off Fall Semester

A collection of brand new Library acquisitions are displayed on the New Books Shelf on the third floor (near the Reference Stacks). These titles can be checked out!

Bailey and Love’s short practice of surgery (2008).
Fauci, Anthony S. Harrison’s manual of medicine (2009).
Feldman, Harriet R. Nursing leadership: a concise encyclopedia (2008).
Fogel, Catherine Ingram. Women’s health care in advanced practice nursing (2008).
Fowler, Floyd. Survey research methods (2009).
Goodrich, James Tait. Neurosurgical operative atlas: Pediatric neurosurgery (2008).
Hansen, Barbara Caleen. The metabolic syndrome: epidemiology, clinical treatment (2008).
Hochberg, Marc C. Rheumatology (2 vols) (2008).
Myers, Eugene N. Operative otolaryngology: head and neck surgery (2 vols) (2008).
Nezhat’s operative gynecologic laparoscopy and hysteroscopy (2008).
Norton, Jeffrey A. Surgery: basic science and clinical evidence (2008).
Saldana, Johnny. The coding manual for qualitative researchers 2009).
Scholssberg, David. Clinical infectious disease (2008).
Skandalakis, Lee John, et al. Surgical anatomy and technique: a pocket manual (2009).
WHO. Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health (2009).
Zilm, Glennis. The smart way: an introduction to writing for nurses (2009).

Also of note is a small range of new items in the field of archiving and preservation of library and museum collections, which are also part of this month’s New Books Display. These volumes are from a “Connecting to Collections” grant won by the Isch?â?® Library from the National Institute of Museum and Library Services (in partnership with The American Association for State and Local History, The Getty Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, and Heritage Preservation). The grant was successfully written by Reference Librarian Maureen Knapp.

Capitalize on collections care (2007).
Drewes, Jeanne M. Promoting preservation awareness in libraries: a sourcebook (1997).
Ellis, Margaret Holben. The care of prints and drawings (1995).
Field guide to emergency response (2006).
Frey, Fanziska. The AIC guide to digital photography and conservation documentation (2008).
Gorman, G.E. Preservation management for libraries, museums and archives (2006).
Long, Jane S. Caring for your family treasures: heritage preservation text (2000).
Malaro, Marie, C. A legal primer on managing museum collections (1998).
National Park Service Museum Handbook, Part 1 (2 vols) (2007).
The National Trust manual of housekeeping (2006).
The nature of conservation: a race against time (1989).
Ogden, Sherelyn. Caring for American Indian objects (2004).

Press release regarding grant: http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/061709.shtm

New! Allied Health Resource Guide

Just in time for fall semester, we’ve created a brand spankin’ new guide for you allied health folks. Whether you’re a cardiopulmonary-specialist-to-be or a long time OT faculty member, we’ve got you covered.

Find all the databases for your specialty, plus lists of selected journals, online books, and websites, all in one place:

ALLIED HEALTH RESOURCE GUIDE
http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/resources/guides/AlliedHealth.html

Issues with Wireless

With so many students returning to campus for the Fall semester, we’re seeing a number of issues accessing the wireless network. If the directions that the Library or Nursing School have posted aren’t working out. Try not checking off any of the certificate authorities. When the popup box comes up to accept the security certificate, wait a few moments before clicking OK. It seems like if you click through the boxes too quickly, you end up stuck in a login loop.

If this doesn’t work, we can try to help in the Library or you can hunt down a computer supporter in your school.

Top Doctors from New Orleans Magazine

Once a year, New Orleans Magazine publishes a list of the Top Doctors in the greater New Orleans area; this list is compiled from a database created by Best Doctors in America. This year there were 564 listings from 66 specialties; the list is created by asking area physicians who they would want to treat an ill family member. Two LSUHSC physicians were featured Kim Edward LeBlanc and Cleveland Moore. Congratulations to everyone on the list!
Allergy & Immunology
Luis R. Espinoza
Cleveland Marvin Moore
Ricardo Sorenson
Cardiovascular Disease
David Lucas Glancy
Critical Care Medicine
Christopher C. Baker
Carol M. Mason
Steve Nelson
Warren Richard Summer
Dermatology
Brian David Lee
Lee T. Nesbitt, Jr.
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Alfonso Vargas
Family Medicine
Kim Edward LeBlanc
Herbert L. Muncie, Jr.
Infectious Disease
Rebecca Adair Clark
Michael Edward Hagensee
David H. Martin
Charles V. Sanders
Internal Medicine
John R. Amoss
David M. Borne
Angela M. McLean
Medical Oncology & Hematology
Lowell Anthony
Neurology
John D. England
Anne L. Foundas
Amparo (Amy) Gutierrez
Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak
Austin John Sumner
Nuclear Medicine
Richard J. Campeau, Jr.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Martha Johnston Brewer
Ralph R. Chesson, Jr.
Felton L. Winfield, Jr.
Orthopaedic Surgery
Andrew G. King
Otolaryngology
Rohan Walvekar
Pain Medicine
Alan David Kaye
Stephen Kishner
Pathology
Randall Douglas Craver
Gary E. Lipscomb
William Proctor Newman III
Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Cleveland Marvin Moore
Ricardo Sorenson
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Stanley Martin Hall
John Frederick Heaton
Pediatric Cardiology
Robert Joseph Ascuitto
Nancy Tamara Ross-Ascuitto
Aluizio Roberto Stopa
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Raynorda F. Brown
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Renee V. Gardner
Tammuella E. Singleton
Maria C. Velez
Lolie Chua Yu
Pediatric Nephrology
V. Matti Vehaskari
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Andrew G. King
Pediatric Pathology
Randall Douglas Craver
Pediatric Rheumatology
Abraham Gedalia
Pediatric Specialist/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Charles C. Coleman
Debra DePrato
Martin J. Drell
Humberton Quintana
Pediatric Specialist/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Brian Barkemeyer
Staci Olister
Duna Penn
Dana Rivera
Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General
Stephen Russell Deputy
Ann Henderson Tilton
Maria Weimer
Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Neuromuscular Disease
Ann Henderson Tilton
Pediatric Surgery
Charles Baker Hill, Jr
Pediatric Urology
Joseph Ortenberg
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Stephen Kirshner
Psychiatry
James G. Barbee
Jose Calderon-Abbo
Charles C. Coleman
Erich J. Conrad
Debra Deprato
Howard Joseph Osofsky
Mark Harold Townsend
Pulmonary Medicine
Juzar Ali
Carol M. Mason
Steve Nelson
Judd Ernest Shellito
Warren Richard Summer
David Allen Welsh
Rheumatology
Luis R. Espinoza
Sleep Medicine
Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak
Surgery
Christopher C. Baker
J. Philip Boudreaux
John Patrick Hunt III
Surgical Oncology
Eugene A. Woltering
Urology
Sean Collins
Harold Anthony Fuselier, Jr
Jack Christian Winters
Vascular Surgery
Larry Harold Hollier

Goodbye MTs & CLSs, Hello MLS (ASCP)!

For a number of years, there have been a several of different certifications for medical laboratory professionals. Depending on whether you were a clinical laboratory scientist or a medical technologist, you may either have a certification of MT or CLS. These certifications were managed by two different credentialing agencies: the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Registry (BOR) and the National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA).

Complicated? You bet! Having two credentialing agencies created competition and division, and certainly must have been a challenge to both entry level professionals and the labs that hire them to determine which certification was needed, required, and ensured best practices.

However, hope is on the horizon. Recently the ASCP and NCA announced the creation of a single credentialing agency, effective October 23, 2009. The NCA will be dissolved and the new, consolidated credentialing entity will be called the ASCP Board of Certification (BOC). Medical Technologists and Clinical Laboratory Scientists will credentialed as Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS), and the ?óÔé¼?£ASCP?óÔé¼Ôäó suffix will be attached to all BOC certifications. Medical Laboratory Technicians and Clinical Laboratory Technicians will be unified as Medical Laboratory Technicians (MLT).

For more information on these upcoming changes check out this article from the Dark Daily, a site for clinical pathology news and trends. Detailed information on the unification process can be obtained from this NCA presentation.

You Can Hear Me Now!

Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary – 21st Ed. (2009) provides audio pronunciations for 30,000 terms.

Look these up and pronounce them properly!
dacryohemorrhea
pachymenia
saccharomyces cerevisiae
xiphoid

Taber’s is available in Stat!Ref, one of the library’s electronic textbook databases.

Glitches Gone in EMBASE.com

EMBASE.com is functioning properly and has some new features.
The best new feature is the suggested EMTREE descriptors at the search box. EMBASE.com uses controlled vocabulary (EMTREE terms and phrases) to focus the literature search to find articles about the topic. Just select the EMTREE term and search. The EMTREE term will be searched as well as the keyword.

Largest Class of Medical Students

It’s not just my imagination. There really are more first year medical students this year. Welcome to campus!

Certificate Error & Remote Access

A number of patrons have been receiving a certificate error when attempting to use the Library’s Remote Access system (WAM).

The certificate was renewed by LSU-Baton Rouge but is not propigating properly for some reason. To install the certificate, click on the from the following link. And then choose Open and then Install. Accept any other default settings. *Please note that this certificate only works with Internet Explorer & not Firefox.*

Once installation is complete (takes about 10 seconds), attempt the off-campus link from the Library’s webpages again.

~EDIT~ This issue is now resolved thanks to the efforts of the IT staff.