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Oxford specialist handbooks added to NHS ebook collection

 The Oxford Medicine Online ebook collection, subscribed to by NHS England, has been extended to include the Specialist Handbook series.

This collection is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. Link to the collection via our eBooks page. The list of new titles include the following:

  • A Resuscitation Room Guide
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Advanced Respiratory Critical Care
  • Anaesthesia for Emergency Care
  • Applied Medicine and Surgery in Dentistry
  • Burns (OSH Surgery)
  • Cardiac Anaesthesia
  • Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation
  • Cardiothoracic Critical Care
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
  • Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Colorectal Surgery
  • Day Case Surgery
  • Dementia - from advanced disease to bereavement
  • Echocardiography
  • End of Life Care in the ICU - from advanced disease to bereavement
  • Epilepsy
  • Fetal Cardiology
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery
  • Global Anaesthesia
  • Head and Neck Imaging
  • Heart Disease in Pregnancy
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Failure - From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
  • Hypertension
  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Inherited Cardiac Disease
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Kidney Disease - from advanced disease to bereavement
  • Liver and Pancreatobiliary Surgery
  • Manual of Childhood Infections
  • Medical Psychotherapy
  • Musculoskeletal Imaging
  • Neuroanaesthesia
  • Neurodisability and Community Child Health
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Obstetric Anaesthesia
  • Obstetric Medicine
  • Old Age Psychiatry
  • Ophthalmic Anaesthesia
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • OSH Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
  • OSH: Hand Surgery
  • Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
  • Oxford Specialist Handbook: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
  • Pacemakers and ICDs
  • Paediatric Anaesthesia
  • Paediatric Dermatology
  • Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • Paediatric Haemotology and Oncology
  • Paediatric Intensive Care
  • Paediatric Nephrology
  • Paediatric Neurology
  • Paediatric Palliative Medicine
  • Paediatric Radiology
  • Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
  • Paediatric Rheumatology
  • Paediatric Surgery
  • Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders
  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Pharmaceutical Medicine
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Post-Operative Complications
  • Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Regional Anaesthesia, Stimulation and Ultrasound Techniques
  • Renal Transplantation
  • Respiratory Disease - from advanced disease to bereavement
  • Retrieval Medicine
  • Spinal Interventions in Pain Management
  • Stroke Medicine
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Thoracic Anaesthesia
  • Thoracic Imaging
  • Urogynaecology
  • Urological Surgery
  • Valvular Heart Disease
  • Vascular Anaesthesia
  • Vascular Surgery

For any help accessing these titles please contact the Health Library.

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