Specialized Resources
Cardiology on the Internet
A Cardiology is one of
the medical fields with the highest presence on the Internet. The number
of sites maintained by medical societies, electronic journals and magazines,
university departments and research centers, etc. is large and growing.
In Brazil, we already have important resources in this area, too, such
as the sites of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, the São Paulo
and the Minas Gerais Cardiological Societies, as well as the full text
issues of the Brazilian Archives of Cardiology (1996-1997) and of the Journal
of the São Paulo Cardiological Society; and many others.
In this paper, we represent a selection of interesting
links in Cardiology, subdivided into the following categories:
- Sites
- Societies and Associations
- Continued Education
- Institutions
- Journals and Magazines
- Documents, Articles e Electronic Books
- Conferences
- Industries, Products and Services
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Brazil
Sites
- Crux
Cordis - Aims at promoting scientific exchange of information between
cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons. It also contains medical information
to the lay community, expressed in simpler language. Heart surgery, ventriculectomy,
cardiology, Batista's operation, heart diseases, etc.
- Department
of Cardiology, Brazilian Virtual Hospital - a site for continued medical
education and support to research and medical decision making in cardiology.
Maintained by the Center
for Biomedical Informatics of the State University of Campinas, it
has a large number of links on cardiology. See also the Department
of Cardiovascular Surgery of the same Hospital.
- MedStudents
Cardiology - Site produced by medical students of the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, contains articles, clinical cases, interactive
questionnaires, medical images, etc.
- Cardio
Care: created for physicians and patients, ths service helps in the
prevention of cardiovascular diseases and in a better compliance to therapy.
Offered by Laboratórios Biosintética, a Brazilian pharmaceutical
industry, with the authorship of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology
and the Cardiological Society of São Paulo.
Societies and Associations
- Brazilian Society
of Cardiology - Institutional site with information about the Society,
its departments and programs, the Heart Studies Foundation (FUNCOR), conferences
and other events, links to more than 600 pages of cardiological information,
clinical guidelines, and topics of public interest (patient information).
The proceedings of the Brazilian Conferences of Cardiology (LI e LII) may
be downloaded. Links are
provided to several other cardiological sites, including the Societie's
scientific journal, the Brazilian
Archives of Cardiology. In addition, there are two separate sites for
departments of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology:
- Cardiological
Society of São Paulo - Institutional site with information about
the largest regional medical society in Brazil, programs of continued medical
education, events, and access to the full text of the Journal
of the Society.
- Society
of Cardiology of Minas Gerais : with information about the society,
pages of national and international links in cardiology, future conferences
and a sample of the Society's official
journal.
Continued Medical Education
- A Virtual Course
on Cardiologia (CardioNet)- Pages created by the Graduate Course in
Cardiology of the Institute of Cardiology of Rio Grande do Sul. It
has classes in PointPlus about unstable angina and ischemic heart disease.
- Integral
Cardiology Programl - This page aims at teaching the basic concepts
of preventive cardiology, such as smoking, hypertension, high colesterol,
etc.
Institutions
- InCor - Home
Page of the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo. Aims,
health care programs, research and education, staff, informatics, etc.
- Institute
of Cardiology of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS.
- Instituto
Dante Pazzanese of Cardiologia, São Paulo, SP. A description
of the institute, its history and servces, Center of Multicentric Studies,
Advanced Course
of Cardiology, conferences promoted by the Institute, etc.
Journals
Electronic Documents, Articles and Books
Conferences
Companies, Products and Services
- Braile Biomédica
S/A. - Development and production of all components for heart surgery,
including membrane and bubble oxygenators, extracorporeal circulation pumps,
artificial heart valves made of pericardiac membrane. Biological prostheses
in general, including vascular grafts. Cardioplegic solutions, clinical
thermometers, external pacemakers, etc.
- Informed Comércio
e Indústria Ltda. - Ultrasound and radiographical equipment,
CT and MRI units, mammography, etc., Exclusive commercial representative
in Brazil for Diasonics, Vingmed, Shimadzu e Giotto.
- Laboratórios
Biosintética - A service site for physicians and patients, with
scientific information (BioOnLine), information about medical events, societies,
news, etc. In addition, it has information about the company and its line
of products. Neuro Care and Heart Care services, support to the Brazilian
Virtual Hospital and the Informédica and SOCESP journals..
- Micromed
- Manufacturer of cardiological equipment, such as EKG and stress testing
equipment, MAPA, ergoespirometry, etc.
- Searle do Brasil
- Information for physicians and laypersons, on-line articles, products
catalog, information about the company, etc.
- Takaoka
- Manufacturer of hospital and surgical equipment, such as anesthetic devices,
intensive care monitors and ventilators, oxygen supply, etc. .
- Telecárdio
- Ther first Brazilian company in telemedicine, it operates systems of
cardiac monitoring (EKG and looper).
Catalogs and Indexes
Software in Cardiology
International
Sites
Societies and Associations
Full Text Journals
Abstracts-Only Journals
Electronic Documents
- Urbana Atlas of Pathology Volume
2 - Cardiovascular Pathology
- Atherosclerosis
and Thrombosis Laboratory tutorial (WebPath)
- Cardiovascular
Pathology Index (WebPath)
- ACC/AHA
Practice Guidelines (management of heart infarction, ambulatory EKG, cardiac
cath studies, coronary angiography, coronary surgery, echocardiography,
electrocardiography, cardiac electrophysiology, evaluation and management
of heart insufficiency, stress testing, pacemaker surgery, percutaneous
transluminal coronary angioplasty and heart scintilography.
- National
Library of Medicine Practice Guidelines contain a section on cardiovascular
medicine.
- National Institutes of Health Consensus Development
Conferences: "Lowering Blood Cholesterol
to Prevent Heart Disease".
- AHCPR Guidelines
- The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has a series of quick-reference
on-line documents for patients and physicians. In cardiology, there are
guides for cardiac insufficiency, unstable angina and cardiac rehabilitation.
- Practice
Guideline Searchable Database, Cochrane Informatics Project: it is
a database containing hundreds of clinical guidelines, which can be searched
by using keywords.
- The American Preventive Services Task Force has
a number of screening
guidelines for high cholesterol and vascular diseases.
Continued Medical Education
Institutions
Companies, Products and Services
Medical Informatics
Indexes and Catalogs
Compiled by: Prof.Dr. Renato
M.E. Sabbatini, Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University
of Campinas
Last Update: September 6th, 1997
Publicação:
Núcleo de Informática Biomédica
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
© 1997 Renato M.E. Sabbatini
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