Website organisation

Given that most of the NOACs have been around a while now and are not really new or novel, we have made the executive decision to change their nomenclature to DOACs (Direct acting oral anti-coagulants) throughout the manual. The good news for NOAC nomenclature lovers is that you can still find DOACs by entering NOAC … Read more

Hi everyone, The good news is that we have just upgraded the server on which this website sits to a faster and more powerful one. This should improve response times and enable us to manage the ever increasing amount of website traffic better in future. The bad news is that, unfortunately, the new server went … Read more

A series of links between the Cellulitis page and other relevant pages in the Dermatology section have been added.

About 20 internal links between overlapping areas in different parts of the manual have been added to aid rapid navigation between the related sections.

Two new journal scan pages have been created that contain the latest abstracts from all the journals most relevant to Emergency Medicine. One is called Emergency Medicine Journals and the other General Journals. Each has a series of tabs across the top of the page – click on the relevant tab to see the latest … Read more

The anatomy, orthopaedic and flowchart galleries have just been updated to a more contemporary format with many additional images added. All the galleries can now be accessed through the drop down menu on the front page of the website.

The Menu displayed on the header bar on each page of the front part of the website has been improved to enable better navigation of the web features. Because of the improved menu system we have removed the links to the different web features from the text on the top of the front page.

The ECG and CXR galleries have just been upgraded to enable display of larger images and scalability of images according to screen size.

6 new images have been added to the CXR, ECG and Image of the day galleries.

A tag cloud of the updates in the previous 4 years has been added to the bottom left column of the website front page. The number of tags has also been reduced.

Just in case you didn’t notice – we have just introduced a new layout for the front section of the website. The new layout should display better on tablets and small mobile devices and is a little more compact than the previous version. Let us know what you think.

Now that we are into the new year, we thought you might like to know just how popular the website was in 2015 – so here are some gratuitous stats for the year: 120,604 visits 3,035,695 pages viewed 14,360,804 hits I guess there must be quite a few people using it! Happy new year

We have been experiencing significant problems today due to upgrade issues with WordPress. As a result all quizzes available on the website stopped functioning for a few hours whilst recovery work was performed. All major website functions appear to have been restored, but please let us know if you notice anything that is not working properly. Please … Read more

6 new images have been added to the Featured image gallery

30 new images have just been added to the Featured image gallery that appears on the front page of the website.