One of our subscribers, Farzad Jazayeri, has come up with this tip on how to enlarge the main text when using Version 1 without the side bar disappearing and the grey guide at the bottom of the page enlarging.
Website organisation
New navigation buttons
A variety of buttons have been added to the site to aid navigation for small devices and touch screens. More will be added progressively until the site is ‘touch friendly’.
Apologies for missing apostrophe pages
Due to the server not recognising certain types of apostrophes in the names of web pages, some pages with apostrophes in their titles (e.g. Reye’s syndrome, Parkinson’s disease etc.) have been unable to be accessed using version 1 or 2. This has now been rectified as we have found a style of apostrophe that is suitable to the … Read more
Changes to Version 1
in response to feedback, we have made a few changes to Version 1. The colour of the stripe that appears at the top, side or bottom of the screen (depending on the window size) has been changed from red to grey, to be a little less distracting. When searching, the text that used to appear below the page on which the search … Read more
The 6th edition print version of the Manual – now available
The much awaited 6th print version of The Emergency Medicine Manual is now available. It contains all the content of the online version as of 18th January 2015, but does not include the online only features (Quizzes, galleries etc.). It is the most up to date textbook possible – editing to publishing time only 3 weeks, not 2 years like many texts!
Other features include
- 3 volume soft cover
- 1800 A4 sized pages
- More than 750 images and 300 tables
- 30% more content than the 5th print edition
- More than 1000 additions
- Recommended text for ACEM fellowship examinations
- Content mapped to ACEM curriculum descriptors or learning objectives – ideal for ACEM trainees.
As a subscriber to the online version, you are eligible for a AUD$20 discount on the purchase of one copy of the print version.
Version 1 search feature changes
We have simplified the display of the search results in Version 1 to improve the search performance. Previously the html name of the page was displayed as well as a short snippet of the content around the word(s) being searched for. Both of these have now been removed, so now all that is displayed is the title of the … Read more
Guillain-Barré a été trouvé!
Unfortunately the page on Guillain-Barré has been unavailable for a while because our web server does not speak French. As the file name for the page used the correct spelling (Guillain-Barré), the anglophile server refused to recognise it and was displaying an error message instead. The page is now available again, however (apologies to all the Francophiles out … Read more
Important – menu changes
The main site menu has been updated so the two new versions (and the old version) of the manual content can be accessed through the ‘Content’ heading on the main menu. As the previous ‘Search’ and ‘Index’ headings on the main menu only are only relevant to the old manual content (that is no longer being updated), … Read more
New version added – now two new versions to choose from!
As previously announced, the old version of manual content is giving us problems so we need a new version to replace it. Because of this we have been developing a few different options for a new layout. The first of these layouts was added to the site a few months ago, and today we have added another. The … Read more
3 new ECGs
3 new ECGs have been added to the ECG gallery.
CXR gallery – 11 new images added
Eleven additional images have been added to the CXR gallery, bringing the total number of images to 111.
New layout link added to front page
The new layout for the manual has been further developed, and is now at the point where it is ready for use. For this reason we have put a link (to open a new tab) to the new format on the front page of the website and here. Within the new layout, you can only access … Read more
New trial layout available
Although it may not be obvious, we have been really busy behind the scenes working on a new layout for the contents of the manual. We are pleased to announce that you can now preview the new online version in its draft format. The new format has a cleaner look, and displays much better on smaller … Read more
800th quiz question
The 800th quiz question has been added to the website – and more to come!
Scheduled website downtime Wednesday 3rd September 01:00 – 05:00
The website will be off-line for 2 periods of up to 30 minutes sometime between 01:00 and 05:00 AEST next Wednesday 3rd September, 2014 to enable some scheduled maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
ECG gallery updated
The ECG gallery has been updated and reformatted. Click on the ECG image to enlarge it and show the diagnosis. The gallery is a good way to revise a lot of different ECGs in a short space of time.
700th update
Just in case you were wondering how dynamic the online version is, we have just competed the 700th significant update (and hundreds more smaller changes) since we started counting in September 2012.
700th quiz question added
The 700th quiz question from the 44th quiz has just been added to the website. Test yourself if you really want to learn!
New – monthly update email notification
We know it can be hard to keep up with all the changes to The Emergency Medicine Manual Online, so to help with this from now on, we will be sending you a monthly update email. The email will contain the last 30 updates to the manual (usually about one month’s worth) with direct links to … Read more
RSS feed link now available
For those of you who want to keep up with the latest updates without having to check the site, we have included a RSS feed link on the top of the left hand column.