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STAT!Ref EBooks Updates

Our collection of eBooks from STAT!Ref has been updated. While we lost a few older books, we have added some newer ebooks on currently popular topics.

The new ebooks are:

Cancer Immunotherapy Principles and Practice – 2nd Ed. (2022)

Clinical Manual for the Oncology Advanced Practice Nurse – 4th Ed. (2022)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups – 2nd Ed. (2022)

Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care – 2nd Ed. (2024)

Dimensional Analysis for Meds: Refocusing on Essential Metric Calculations – 6th Ed.

(2023)

Dossey & Keegan’s Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice – 8th Ed. (2022)

Extended Stability for Parenteral Drugs – 7th Ed. (2023)

Homelessness and Mental Health (2022)

Invasive Cardiology: A Manual for Cath Lab Personnel – 4th Ed. (2023)

Leadership in Nursing Practice: The Intersection of Innovation and Teamwork in

Healthcare Systems – 4th Ed. (2023)

LGBTQ+: Support and Care (2021)

Lubkin’s Chronic Illness: Impact and Intervention – 11th Ed. (2023)

Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets – 9th Ed. (2023)

Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook (2020-2021)

Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes – 3rd Ed. (2022)

Suicide Prevention (2021)

Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works – 2nd Ed. (2023)

The removals are:
Cancer Basics – 2nd Ed. (2017)

Davis’s NCLEX-RN Success – 3rd Ed. (2012)

Escourolle and Poirier’s: Manual of Basic Neuropathology 6th Ed (2019)

Evidence-based Emergency Medicine (2009)

HCPCS Level II (2023)

High-Risk & Critical Care Obstetrics – 4th Ed. (2019)

Labor and Delivery Nursing: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice – 2nd Ed. (2021)

Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales – 15th Ed. (2019)

Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care – 7th Ed (2017)

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine – 6th Ed. (2021)

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing – 5th Ed. (2019)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families – 3rd Ed. (2012)

Perinatal Nursing – 5th Ed. (2021)

Physical Rehabilitation – 6th Ed. (2014)

Sparks & Taylor’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual – 11th Ed. (2020)

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook – 6th Ed. (2021)

Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing – 2nd Ed. (2013)

The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery – 5th Ed. (2020)

StatPearls – New Board Review Resource

Starting July 31st, we now have access to StatPearls, a board review resource and question bank. Our subscription includes the following packages:

All Medical Specialties
Nurse Practitioner
Nursing Certification
Nursing NCLEX (RN and PN)
Pharmacy
Physician Assistant
USMLE Steps 1, 2, and 3

For more information visit our database page for StatPearls: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/statpearls.aspx. To access our subscription, first visit the StatPearls LSUHSC-New Orleans registration portal and register. The link to the portal is on the database page.

If you need assistance, please contact your librarian liaison or email library technical services: librarytech@lsuhsc.edu.

ClinicalKey EBooks: New Titles, New Editions, and a Few Removals

ClinicalKey has updated our eBook collection with some new titles and editions, but they have also done a little spring cleaning.
New to the ClinicalKey collection are:
Atlas of Reconstructive Surgery: A Case-Based Approach (Pu) 1st ed.

Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea (Sindwani) 1st ed.

Clinical Applications of 3D Printing in Foot and Ankle Surgery (Highlander) 1st ed.

Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Greenes) 3rd ed.

Contact Lens Practice (Efron) 4th ed.

Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology Tumors and their Mimickers (Abdul-Karim) 1st ed.

Emergency Department Technician Handbook, The (Shesser) 1st ed.

Fetal, Neonatal and Pediatric Neuroradiology (Kralik) 1st ed.

Handbook of Obesity in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Mahmood) 1st ed.

Human Histology: A Text and Atlas for Physicians and Scientists (Dudás) 1st ed.

Kanski’s Clinical Ophthalmology (Salmon) 9th ed.

Low Vision (Dickinson) 1st ed.

Manual of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies (Bashir) 1st ed.

Molecular Biology Techniques (Carson) 4th ed.

Neuromodulation Techniques for the Spine (Abd-Elsayed) 1st ed.

Palliative Radiation Oncology (Vapiwala) 5th ed.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets (O’Young) 4th ed.

Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Hair Restoration (Alam) 1st ed.

Spinal Fusion Techniques (Abd-Elsayed) 1st ed.

Treatment of Acetabular Bone Loss and Chronic Pelvic Discontinuity (Sheth) 1st ed.

As is ClinicalKey’s policy with new editions of eBooks, the previous editions are usually still available for a few months after the new editions are published. New editions published this spring are:
Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine (Kryger) 3rd ed.

Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Tiwana) 2nd ed.

Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn (Gleason) 11th ed.

Basic Immunology (Abbas) 7th ed.

Berne & Levy Physiology (Koeppen) 8th ed.

Bland and Copeland’s The Breast (Klimberg) 6th ed.

Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine (Ciottone) 3rd ed.

Clinical Lipidology: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Ballantyne) 3rd ed.

Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (Johnson) 7th ed.

Coughlin and Mann’s Surgery of the Foot and Ankle (Haskell) 10th ed.

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry (Stefanac) 4th ed.

Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications (Collins) 40th ed.

Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine (Al-Shaikh) 6th ed.

Goldberger’s Clinical Electrocardiography (Goldberger) 10th ed.

The Harriet Lane Handbook (Anderson) 23rd ed.

Learning Radiology (Herring) 5th ed.

Little and Falace’s Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient (Kerr) 10th ed.

Macleod’s Clinical Examination (Dover) 15th ed.

Penn Clinical Manual of Urology (Guzzo) 3rd ed.

Plotkin’s Vaccines (Plotkin) 8th ed.

Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Soft Tissue Augmentation (Carruthers) 5th ed.

Weedon’s Skin Pathology Essentials (Johnston) 3rd ed.

Ebooks no longer available to us via ClinicalKey are:
Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas (Micheletti) 1st ed. We have the 2nd ed.

Atlas of Human Anatomy (Netter) 7th ed.  We have the 8th ed.

Body Contouring and Liposuction (Rubin) 1st ed.

Cardiology Secrets (Levine) 5th ed. We have the 6th ed.

Cornea Atlas (Krachmer) 3rd ed.

Coronary Stenting (Price) 1st ed.

Diagnostic Cytopathology Essentials (Kocjan) 1st ed.

Haematology: An Illustrated Colour Text (Howard) 4^tth ed.

Integrative Medicine (Rakel) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Kaufman) 8th ed. We still have access via ScienceDirect.  We also have the 9th ed.

Kirk’s General Surgical Operations (Novell) 6th ed.

Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures (Chernecky) 6th ed. While we do not have ebook access, we do have a print copy for this edition and the 7th and 8th eds. [QY 4 C81L 2013]

Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics (Marcdante) 8th ed. We have the 9th ed.

Netter’s Clinical Anatomy (Hansen) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Netter’s Sports Medicine (Madden) 2nd ed. We have the 3rd ed.

Oncologic Imaging (Silverman) 1st ed. We have the 2nd ed.

The Ophthalmic Assistant (Stein) 10th ed. We have the 11th ed.

Otologic Surgery (Chernecky) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Practical Skin Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (Patterson) 1st ed.

Surgical Techniques of the Shoulder, Elbow, and Knee in Sports Medicine (Cole) 2nd ed. We have the 3rd ed.

New LibGuide for Clinical Practice Guidelines

A new LibGuide has been created to help locate Clinical Practice Guidelines online and in databases. Check it out at this link: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/clinicalpracticeguidelines

New Poster Printing Request Process

The Isché Library has a new process for requesting Research Posters. Please check out our Poster Printing page for policies and procedures, and our NEW Poster Printing Libguide for more information and detailed helps and design tips.

Gahart’s Intravenous Medications Is Now Elsevier!

There is a new edition of Gahart’s Intravenous Medications but the author has changed and so has the title. Elsevier’s 2023 Intravenous Medications: a handbook for nurses and health professionals is now available via ClinicalKey.

This 2023 edition marks the fiftieth year of publication of Intravenous Medications. Betty L. Gahart has stepped away from the publication and the new author is Shelly Rainforth Collins. Betty Gahart originated the idea for this text and manned the helm for nearly 50 years with contributions from her her co-authors, Adrienne R. Nazareno and Meghan Q. Ortega.

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination Online

We are pleased to announce that we now subscribe to Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination Online!

Please visit the library database page, https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/bates.aspx, or the library catalog record, https://innopac.lsuhsc.edu/record=b1158833~S1, to access this resource.

Bates’ Visual Guide includes over 200 streaming videos on physical examination, communication and interpersonal skills, and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) clinical skills.

The visual guide can be used alongside the textbook, Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn Bickley, which the library subscribes to via the LWW Health Library: https://innopac.lsuhsc.edu/record=b1153440~S1.

We hope you find this useful! Let us know if you need more information, LibraryTech@lsuhsc.edu.

RESOLVED: EBSCO Technical Difficulties

Update, 11/9/2021: EBSCO has resolved issues with their platform. If you continue to experience problems please contact the library: reference@lsuhsc.edu.

EBSCO has reported problems with multiple products including our EBSCO Discovery search system and EBSCO eBooks collections. They are working to resolve the issues. We will update the blog once everything is back to normal.

BoardVitals problems – some fixes in the works

BoardVitals has been working to resolve our registration issues. You do not have to use a special link to register anymore. You can register with your lsuhsc.edu email. All lsuhsc.edu users will now be added to the LSUHSC-New Orleans account. LSUHSC-Shreveport (aka LSU Health Shreveport) users should register with their new lsuhs.edu email to be registered under the Shreveport account. Our libraries are working to identify existing users that have been assigned to the wrong account, and we will try to correct those users as soon as possible.

LSUHSC-New Orleans subscribes to the following question banks. If you do not see these question banks when you log in, please contact your librarian liaison or Head of Collection Development, Marlene Bishop or BoardVitals Technical Support at support@boardvitals.com.

AACN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
AANP Family Nurse Practitioner
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP
ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner
Certified Nurse Midwife
Critical Care Nursing
Dermatology
Family Medicine
Family Medicine MOC
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine MOC
NAPLEX
NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-RN
PANCE
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatry
Radiology Core
Surgery
Surgery MOC
USMLE Step 1
USMLE Step 2
USMLE Step 3

VisualDx now available

The library is pleased to announce that we are now subscribed to VisualDx, a differential diagnosis tool based on a curated collection of medical images. Users can search by symptom, medication, or diagnosis. VisualDx recently expanded their collection to include a section devoted to dermatology for skin of color.

Access is available both on and off-campus through proper authentication methods.

BoardVitals problems continue

There is a problem with registering users for BoardVitals access. If you have not registered yet, you must register using the following link or your account will not be created correctly: https://www.boardvitals.com/users/sign_up?o=1c1f90eda105b70d3bae56769589b414

LSUHSC-New Orleans subscribes to the following question banks. If you do not see these question banks when you log in, please contact your librarian liaison or Head of Collection Development, Marlene Bishop or BoardVitals Technical Support at support@boardvitals.com.

AACN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
AANP Family Nurse Practitioner
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP
ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner
Certified Nurse Midwife
Critical Care Nursing
Dermatology
Family Medicine
Family Medicine MOC
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine MOC
NAPLEX
NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-RN
PANCE
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatry
Radiology Core
Surgery
Surgery MOC
USMLE Step 1
USMLE Step 2
USMLE Step 3

More ClinicalKey Additions for April

ClinicalKey has released another list of ebooks added to the collection for this month. They are:

Aesthetic Surgery of the Facial Skeleton (Baker, Stephen B.) 1st ed.; New to CK

ASE’s Comprehensive Echocardiography (Lang, Roberto M.) 3rd ed.; New edition

Atlas of Robotic General Surgery (Novitsky, Yuri W.) 1st ed.; New to CK

Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction (Baker, Shan) 4th ed.; New edition

McDonald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent (Dean, Jeffrey A.) 11th ed.; New edition

Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia (Budson, Andrew E.) 3rd ed.; New edition

The Mental Status Examination Handbook (Mendez, Mario) 1st ed.; ISBN: 9780323694896; New to CK

Netter’s Infectious Disease (Jong, Elaine C.) 2nd ed.; New edition

Pleural Diseases (Sorino, Claudio) 1st ed.; New to CK

Practical Dermatopathology (Rapini, Ronald P.); 3rd ed.; New edition

ClinicalKey Updates for April

The following ebooks have recently been added to the ClinicalKey ebooks collection:

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Li, Weiye) 1st ed. 2022

Atlas of Pediatric Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy (Bishoff, Jay T.) 2nd ed. 2022

Atlas of Spinal Imaging: phenotypes, measurements and classification systems (Louie, Philip K.) 1st ed. 2022

Bradley and Daroff’s Neurology in Clinical Practice (Jankovic, Joseph) 8th ed. 2022

Clinical Cases in Uveitis: differential diagnosis and management (Sandhu, Harpal S.) 1st ed. 2021

Clinical Diagnosis in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: case by case (Nori, Subhadra) 1st ed. 2022

Cohen’s pathways of the pulp, (Berman, Louis H. [and] Hargreaves, Kenneth M.) 12^th ed. 2021

Complications in Endovascular Surgery: peri-procedural prevention and treatment (Dryjski, Maciej L.) 1st ed. 2022

Cornea: fundamentals, diagnosis, and management (Mannis, Mark J.); 5th ed. 2022

Distal Radius Fractures: evidence-based management (Jupiter, Jesse); 1st ed. 2021

Fuhrman and Zimmerman’s Pediatric Critical Care (Zimmerman, Jerry J.); 6th ed. 2022

Goodman’s Basic Medical Endocrinology (Holt, Elizabeth H.); 5th ed. 2022

Ham’s Primary Care Geriatrics: a case-based approach (Warshaw, Gregg A.); 7th ed. 2022

Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Toxicities (Velcheti, Vamsidhar); 1st ed. 2022

Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference (Jeske, Arthur H.); 13th ed. 2022

The opioid epidemic and infectious diseases, (Norton, Brianna L.) 1^st ed. 2021

Physical Diagnosis Secrets (Mangione, Salvatore); 3rd ed. 2021

Pickwell’s Binocular Vision Anomalies (Evans, Bruce J.W.); 6th ed. 2022

Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Hall, John E.); 14th ed. 2021

Psychotic Disorders: comorbidity detection promotes improved diagnosis and treatment (Veras, André Barciela); 1st ed. 2021

A Rational Approach to Clinical Infectious Diseases: a manual for house officers and other non-infectious diseases clinicians (Temesgen, Zelalem); 1st ed. 2022

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: the biological basis of modern surgical practice (Townsend, Courtney M.); 21st ed. 2022

Sports Vision: vision care for the enhancement of sports performance (Erickson, Graham B.); 2nd ed. 2022

Stroke: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management (Grotta, James C.); 7th ed. 2022

Zika and Other Neglected and Emerging Flaviviruses: the continuing threat to human health (Beltz, Lisa A.); 1st ed. 2021

ClinicalKey Updates for March

Below are the latest additions to our ClinicalKey package:

Aminoff’s Neurology and General Medicine (Aminoff, Michael J.) 6th ed.

Atlas of Endoscopy Imaging in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Shen, Bo) 1st ed.

Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics and Genomics (Turnpenny, Peter D.) 16th ed.

Gattuso’s Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology (Reddy, Vijaya B.) 4th ed.

Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals (Joint Commission International) 7th ed.

Larsen’s Human Embryology (Schoenwolf, Gary C.) 6th ed.

Park’s The Pediatric Cardiology Handbook (Park, Myung K.) 6th ed.

Principles and Practice of Lymphedema Surgery (Cheng, Ming-Huei); 2nd ed.

BoardVitals new users registration link

BoardVitals has created a new registration link for our LSUHSC-New Orleans patrons. The registration link and other information is now available on our BoardVitals database web page: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/boardvitals.aspx

NEW USERS, PLEASE USE THE SECOND LINK ON OUR BOARDVITALS DATABASE PAGE WHEN YOU REGISTER. (SEE BELOW)

If you have already registered, and you are not able to see the question banks for LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, please contact the library for assistance. You can check your access by going to “Add/Manage Question Bank Favorites”.

If you see LSU Health Science Center – New Orleans, you are good to go.

If you see Louisiana State University – Shreveport, your access is not correct and we will need to have BoardVitals correct your account.

Please let us know if you have any problems or need further assistance.

Thank you for your patience.