The Internet was created in 1969, when the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense fired up an experimental network consisting of only four computers. Over the past five years there has been an exponential explosion in the number of computers added to this network. It is estimated that Internet traffic doubles every 100 days with more than 300 million people worldwide now on-line.1 The Internet is so vast that practically every aspect of human interest is represented in some form or fashion. As of February 1999, the Web contained about 800 million pages of information, up from 320 million in December 1997.1,2 From recreation to applied science and technology, and from emergency and intensive care management case scenarios to digitized radiology images and pathology specimens, the Internet has become increasingly useful for medical emergency, critical and intensive care practitioners. The Internet in general, holds great promise for all clinicians because of its ability to access and consolidate large amounts of knowledge quickly and easily. As a result, information overload is occurring and physician users are finding it necessary to use creative and selective methods to digest this data. There are no well-known web resources better equipped to assist emergency care physicians in many of their daily tasks. In an attempt to overcome this issue this article presents a list of some of the very informative emergency medicine, critical care, intensive care and monitoring sites and applications that will be useful. These sites are an important source of information related to the application of artificial intelligence in medical diagnosis and therapy, medical consultation systems based on introduction of questions, database collection of related images, clinical chemistry, medical calculations and clinical cases etc. The web sites with their brief description and URL (Uniform Resource Locator) web address are listed below. The list also includes some gopher and listserv discussion group addresses for this field. These Web pages will provide access to most popular distribution lists about the practice of emergency care and offers its users a vehicle of expression to consult on emergency care. They are also an excellent source of general information about different aspects of emergency care like orthopedic care, traumatology, intensive care, critical care etc. and allow a simple key word search system to locate all the information that we need in a powerful mechanism.

Emergency Traumatology:

Trauma University of Texas, San Antonio
[ http://rmstewart.uthsca.edu/ ]

TraumAID
[ http://www.cis.upenn.edu/traumaid/home.html ]

TraumaNET
[ http://www.trauma.Isumc.edu/ ]

Emergency Medicine, EMED-L
[ listserv: majordomo@itsa.ucsf.edu ]

EXTOXNET University of California, Davis
[ http://sulaco.oes-orst.edu:70/l/ext/extoxnet/ ]

Trauma and Critical Care
[ http://www.trauma.lsumc.edu ]

Emergency Orthopedic Care:

GASNET Anesthesiology Archive Site
[ ftp://gasnet.med.nyu.edu/pub ]

GEMA-Global Emergency Medicine Archives
[ http://slaris.ckm.ucsf.edu:8081/ ] and [ http://herbst7.his.ucsf.edu ]

Biomechanics Muller Institute
[ http://cranium.unibe.ch/ ]

Biomechanics worldwide
[ http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/llpbaudin/biomch.htm ]

Emergency Orthopedic
[ mail list: jspears@weston.com ]

Orthopedic Homepage
[ http://www.cyberport.net/ortho/ortho.html ]

Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory – Berkeley
[ http://biomech2.berkeley.edu/oblhome.html ]

Repetitive Strain Injury
[ listsserv: listserver@tictac.demon.co.uk ]

SOREHAND
[ listserv: Listserv@usvm.cc.buffalo.edu ]

Surgery, Orthopedics, Anesthesiology
[ gopher:/finfo.anu.edu.au:70/11/elibrary/Ic/r/surgery ]

Backs – L
[ listserv: listserv@moose.uvm.edu ]

Emergency Critical Care and Anesthesiology:

Acute Pain Management
[ http://text.n]m.nih.gov/ahcpr/guidesc.html ]

Anest-L
[ listserv: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu ]

Anesthetic Management of the Latex Allergic Patient [http://gasnet.med.nyu.edu/manuals/latex/latxhome.html]

Anesthesia and Critical Care Resources
[ listserv: listserv@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu ]

Anesthesia Gopher University of California, Los Angeles
[ gopher://gopher.anes.ucia.edu/1 ]

Anesthesiology Archives - GASNET
[ http://gasnet.med.nyu.edu/homepage.html ]

Anesthesiology Educational WWW Server, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
[ http://www.anes.ccf.org:8080/ ]

Anesthesia/Intensive Care Mailing List
[ mail: majordomo@mailbox.uq.oz.au ]

Anesthesia, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine
[ listserv: listproc@aemrc.arizona.edu ]

Anesthesiology and Critical Care University of Pittsburgh
[http://info.pitt.edu-anes/]

Anesthesiology FTP Site University of Florida
[ ftp://hpunix2.anest.ufl.edu/pub ]

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh
[ http://www.pitt.edu/~anes ]

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care University of Queensland
[ http://www.uq.oz.au/anaesth/home.html ]

Anesthesiology Mailing List
[ listserv: listproc@gasnet.med.nyu.edu ]

Anesthesiology and Resucitology Ehime University
[ http://mwsl.m.ehime-u.ac.ip/ ]

Anesthesia, Trauma, Critical Care
[ listserv: tistserv@bitmed.sed.uchilexi ]

Anesthesia Virtual Library
[ http://gasnet.med.nyu.edu/index.html ]

Cancer Pain Relief
[ http://www.stat.washington.edu/talaria/talaria.html ]

Critical Care Medicine
[ listserv: ccm-request@eja.anes.hscsyr.edu ]

Critical Care Medicine - Home Page
[ http://www.pitt.edu/~crippenfindex.html ]

Educational Synopses in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
[ listserv: listserv@anes.med.nyu.edu ]

Educational Synopses – Archive
[ gopher://gasnet.med.nyu.edu:70/1 ]

Intensive Care Society Australia and New Zealand
[ http://www.uq.oz.au/anaesth/anzics/anzics.html ]

Journal of Clinical Monitoring (Abstracts)
[ gopher://gasnet.med.nyu.edu/11/Abstracts ]

Emergency Pediatric Care:

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, PED-EM-L
[ listserv: listserv@brown.vm.brown.edu ]

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - PICU
[ listserv: tistproc@its.mcw.edu ]

Pediatric Pain
[ listserv: mailserv@ac.dal.ca ]

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