Clinical Information Access Program

Downtime Notice

CIAP’s intranet site will be unavailable for four (4) hours due to a server maintenance outage on Tuesday 13th May, 2008 between 19.00 and 23.00. You will still be able to access CIAP via the internet at www.ciap.health.nsw.gov.au.

Please ensure that all users are aware of this outage and that it is possible for users without an internet account to access the site.

If you have difficulty accessing www.ciap.health.nsw.gov.au you may need to contact your local helpdesk and ask them to enable this site through your Area Health Service firewall.

Oxycodone (Revised)

Released 8th May 2008

Please visit the ‘Quality and Safety Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS)’ for detailed information

The NSW Health Quality and Safety Branch has sponsored two new infection control journals.

Journal of Hospital Infection

Includes articles on hospital-acquired infection and related subjects and puts you in contact with the latest concepts and practices in hospital infection control.

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE)

Includes peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or health care facility. ICHE publishes research on control and evaluation of the transmission of pathogens in healthcare institutions and on the use of epidemiological principles and methods to evaluate and improve the delivery of care.

We thank the Quality and Safety Branch for their generous support in sponsoring these titles. Each of these journals can be accessed from the CIAP Full Text Journals List

Revised guidelines have been developed by a panel of clinical toxicologists on behalf of the poisons information centres in Australia and New Zealand using a workshop and consultative process. These recently released guidelines for paracetamol overdose management are now available under ‘Clinical Guidelines’ from CIAP's left side menu.

Nursing Consult now includes two new Australian Emergency Nursing journals providing clinically relevant research, reviews and articles of interest:

• Australian Critical Care
• Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Recalls

Released 30th April 2008

Please visit the ‘Quality and Safety Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS)’ for detailed information

Twice yearly the CIAP journal list is provided by HCN. If you would like a copy of this please .

The purpose of the AMH is two-fold: firstly, to provide a readily accessible, concise, up-to-date source of independent drug information to facilitate effective, rational, safe and economical prescribing and dispensing; secondly, to provide an educational tool for practitioners and students.

The AMH is totally Australian and its contents reflect contemporary Australian clinical practice.

What platforms does it run on?

• Pocket PC - 2002, 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0
• Palm - Tungsten and the Treo (when running PalmOS). Australian Medicine Handbook do not recommend the Palm Z22 as they found it to be unreliable while syncing and do not think the screen quality is sufficient.

What are the differences between the Windows and Palm versions of pAMH?

There are some minor features that are not included in the Palm version. These are:

• The ability to add a note to a document
• An outline view of the document

There are also some differences to the layout to better suit the Palm platform. If you have any questions regarding the PDA version of Australian Medicine Handbook please .