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Health Wellness & Communication

This Libguide is to provide you with clinical reliable resources on various health topics to communicate and promote awareness as part of Health Awareness Day/Week/Month across the year.
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Accessed from Wegner Health Science's list of databases.

Open Access       represents a freely accessible source.

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Introduction
To know more about heat diseases, types, symptoms, risks, and rehabilitation, please check this page of Center for Disease & Control (CDC). Also please check here under 'The Nutrition Source'.
Also, Watch Learn and Live by the American Heart Association.

 

Some of history in Heart Surgery field
1893

 

1958

 

Content made on Kapwing

1967

2018

A Heart Safe Service Building

A public access defibrillator is present at the entrance of Wegner Health Sciences Library to treat any sudden life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmia.

Heart in Anatomage Table
What is Anatomage Table?
Check 'A Trip Inside the Human Body Using Anatomage' under Connective Issue Newsletter: December 2021 issue and Anatomage Libguide.

Scan the below QR codes to check out screenshots of the heart (the organ and the physiology) from Anatomage!

 

Changing YOUR Practice
In an attempt to avoid unnecessary medical and laboratory tests and procedures, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has created Choosing Wisely Open Access. It provides a list of evidence-based and updated recommendations from different specialty society partners.
For heart-related recommendations in Choosing Wisely is here Open Access or here Open Access.
Critically Appraised Topics & Clinical Overviews
Critically Appraised Topical Information and Clinical Overviews can be found here:

Guidelines

To know more on heart disease guidelines, please visit the following pages:

  • ClinicalKey 
  • DynaMed   , offers guidelines from and not limited to Cardiology(ACC), American Heart Association(AHA), American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology (AECVP), Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP), Association of European Paediatric Cardiology, Canadian Cardiovascular Society, please follow the steps in the video below that demonstrates how to reach Guidelines in DynaMed.

 

Facts & Figures

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States (1 in every 4 deaths is caused by a heart disease).
In South Dakota, 56 per 100,000 is the death rate of Cardiovascular diseases and 66 deaths per 100,000 of Heart diseases.

Get to know more about facts and figures by clicking here and by accessing the Interactive Atlas of Heart Diseases and Stroke Open Access (you can interact at County Level or State Level).
GBD Compare database Open Access from 'Institute of Health Metrics and  Evaluation' is another interactive data visualization that provides data about heart diseases that can be filtered by state, years, gender, measure, categories, cause and risk, and units.

Databases
Some of which are:
Articles
A sample of databases were you can find updated articles are:
Journals
Wegner has access to more than 82% of QUARTILE ONE journals for the category 'Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems' exported from Journal Citation Report (which can be accessed form the University Library's list of databases) are represented by the table below.

Additionally, you can browse through Wegner's Journals under the category of  'Cardiovascular Diseases' here.
If you need help retrieving the rest of the journals that lie in the other Quartiles, or help in analysis and evaluation of any journal, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Books

The Beat of Life: A Surgeon Reveals the Secrets of the Heart

Coming soon to the Wegner Library

Books
Important heart books can be found here.
Wegner Health Sciences Library has a very good collection of electronic and hard copy books as well, please check some here.

COVID-19 & Infection Control
These are some reliable resources that discuss the topic of COVID-19 and infection control articles, click here Open Access. What heart patients should know about the coronavirus, click here Open Access.
Evidence-based Updates & News
To receive clinically significant, reliable, and secondary evidence updates in your chosen specialty/ies, register in: 
Hit Parade
Find out more about the most popular topics in research here
Legislations on Infection Control in the State of South Dakota
Find some laws and rules in South Dakota here Open Access.
Type 'heart' or 'cardiovascular' between quotations in the search box provided on the top right of the webpage.
Some results are 
Patient Education
Some patient education handouts are below:
OSCE Skills
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination offers OSCE clinical skills videos, please check here.
Continuing Medical Education Credits
Some databases that make you earn Continuing Medical Education(CME) Credits are:
More
Resources for Health Care Professionals offers information about Lifestyle Changes, Health Equity, Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) Monitoring, Medication Adherence, Standardizing and Improving Patient Care, and Identifying Patients With Hypertension, please click here.
Resources for Public for Health Professionals offers more about Communication Tools, Health Equity Tools, Evidence-Based Policy Tools, Hypertension Maps, Data, and Statistical Reports, please click here.
If you want to look up Open Educational Resources in Google and Youtube, please follow the steps in the video below.

 

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