Introduction

Cardiac Anesthesia

Cardiac Surgery

Cardiology

Perfusion CPB

Echo (General)

Echo (TEE)

Monitoring

Practice Parameters

Med Ed: Anatomy

Med Ed: Physiology

Med Ed: Pathology

Thoracic

Vascular

Organizations

Journals

Textbooks

Research

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References/Bibliography

The Visible Human Project

This is fantastic resource for anesthesiologists in all subspecialties. The project was started at my former institution, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. A male and a female cadaver were frozen and then very finely sliced. Each section was photographed and digitized. Software and computer processing allow all sorts of interesting investigation. The data has been put on CD-ROM, but you can access it over the internet in your web browser. However, most of these programs use Java which is fairly slow, so make sure to optimize your memory allocation settings. This link is a page with a host of choices related to the project.

McGill University MedWeb

A fantastic compendium of sites and other links related to Basic Sciences as they pertain to medical student education (so there is lots of clinically relevant stuff here!). The sites appear to be the "cream of the crop". Its not just anatomy, but I thought this would be the best place to list it. I'd start with their "BEST OF" list but don't forget to check the master list of sites anyway.

The Digital Anatomist

I got this from the McGill MedWeb site and it is fantastic. It's from the University of Washington in Seattle. The Home page has several different organ systems but since I'm most interested in cardiac, I went straight to the Thoracic Viscera section and was rewarded by a some very cutting edge graphics and multimedia techniques. It features sections from the Visible Human Project and I like it so much I'm going to use in the UCSF TEE website. There a lots of options , but I like the Heart and Pericardium section, especially the 3D reconstructions that really put TEE imaging in perspective. Note: occasionally the entire image fails to load, so retry it.

Visible Human Slice Server

These Swiss Scientists are anything but neutral when serving up generous slices of the Visible Human! If you have a little patience and are actually willing to read the directions (the nerve), you can cut the cadaver in 3 planes and have a high resolution image returned to your browser (which can be saved into a program like Photoshop). Very cool! Mac Users: You must use Internet Explorer for this (Netscape doesn't have the proper Java engine).