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8 new CXRs have been added to the CXR gallery, taking the total number up to 134.

18 new ECGs have been added to the ECG gallery and a few duplicates removed. The total number of ECGs in the gallery is now 121.

We have just added our 400th additional image to the manual. We think there are now close to 1000 images in total, but we really haven’t got time to count them all.

The Journal scan pages are unable to provide content from any Journals published by Wiley (this includes Emergency Medicine Australasia). Contents of these journals will not be able to be viewed until Wiley correct the problems with their RSS feeds. Feeds from all other publishers are working as normal.

The size of a large number of images throughout the book (but especially in the Respiratory section) have been reduced, whilst retaining image quality.

The size of a large number of images in the Lower limb injuries section have been reduced, whilst maintaining image quality.

The 6th print edition was released in February 2015, based on content that is now 4 years old.  In the meantime there have been more than 1500 significant revisions made to the online version, but the print edition has not changed. This means that the 6th print edition is now not as up to date … Read more

Please accept my apologies for the site being down since yesterday afternoon. This was caused by me trying to improve the performance of the website – but operating outside my level of technical competence. Everything seems to be back to normal now, however please let us know if you notice any problems. Please again accept … Read more

As Version 2 of the manual is no longer being updated, we have removed the access button from the home page. Version 2 access is still available through the ‘Contents’ menu.

Multiple images in the Respiratory section have been optimised for more rapid download.

Multiple images in the Neurology section have been optimised for more rapid download.

To improve the efficiency of the site, we have removed all the videos from within the text of the manual and replaced them with links to the same videos that can also be found on the videos page. This should speed page loading and reduce bandwidth when loading pages that previously had videos emebedded in … Read more

Some additional tweaking of the website has occurred to optimise download speeds.

If your are an iOS user – we need your help. With the release of Version 3 of the online manual and upgrades to Version 1, we would really like to know how they are going on all the various iOS devices out there. We have had some positive feedback from a few users (especially about … Read more

A number of images and figures that were not being hidden when the Hide images filter is applied (Versions 1 and 3 only) have been identified and fixed. They should now disappear whenever the appropriate filter is applied.

The issues with the failure to display images and instability of the table of contents of the manual have been resolved by temporarily reverting to an earlier version of the files. This means that updates made in the past 3 weeks will not be able to be seen until a definitive solution to the problem … Read more

Please be aware that the table of contents has become unstable, and is linking to all sorts of weird places in the book. We have set up a temporary site for Version 1 of the manual which we suggest you use whilst we fix the problem. https://emergencymedicinemanual.com/Content/v6/alt/TEMM%206%20single%20volume-Responsive%20HTML5/ The temporary version is a few weeks old, … Read more

Please note there is a problem with the display of many images in both Version 1 and 2 of the manual at present. We are currently reverting back to earlier versions (i.e. 3 weeks ago) of these files until we rectify the problem – so some of the most recent updates may not be able … Read more