Website organisation

The issues affecting Version 1 have now been resolved. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the brief down time.

We are currently experiencing some issues with Version 1 and expect it not to be available for the next hour or so whilst we reload the files. In the meantime, Version 3 is still available. Apologies for any inconvenience.

We have done a few things behind the scenes to improve the performance of the website. These will be most noticeable in image rich pages such as the image galleries. Please let us know if you experience any unexpected problems with the website, in case something was not detected by our testing.

A significant number of broken hypertext links have been repaired (especially relating to Infectious diseases). Unfortunately we need to fix quite a few that remain.

21 new images have been added to the Orthopaedics gallery taking the total number of images in the gallery to 132.

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