Resources for theatres and ODPs

NICE Evidence databases: Medline and EMBASE for medical searches, British Nursing Index (BNI), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) -  (NHS ATHENS account required) 

Cochrane Library: Highest quality evidence including 'gold standard' systematic reviews (no login required)

TRIP: Turning Research Into Practice - clinical search engine. Sign up to the site and follow this guide to enable the discovery of full-text links to resources held by Francis Costello Library. Click here for a list of short videos designed to help you get the most out of the TRIP database. (NB the video clips cannot be accessed via a Trust networked device). Please note that users gain enhanced accessed to Trip Pro  when on NHS Trust networked devices.

BNF and BNF for children: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/

PubMed: search engine style version of Medline, for quick search of biomedical literature

NICE 'do not do' recommendations database

NHS Improving Quality (previously NHS Improvement)
 

King's Fund
 

Professional Standards Authority (oversees the 9 health and social care regulators)
 

NICE guidelines (links to further sources of guidelines including Scottish, USA and international can be found on our Healthcare Databases page)
 

Department of Health,  NHS policies, announcements and publications
 

Perioperative standards and guidance from the AfPP
 

Royal College of Anaesthetists clinical standards
 

World Health Organization guidelines for safe surgery

NICE Evidence search (then filter results by information type)

The following journals are available electronically via the Francis Costello Library and are of particular relevance to theatre staff;

• Anesthesia and Analgesia
• Anesthesiology
• Annals of Surgery
• British Journal of Surgery

• Critical Care Medicine
• Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
• Journal of Perioperative Practice
• Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

For further information about journals see Search for a journal

Browse our online library catalogue https://wv-shelib.olib.oclc.org/webview/

Search our catalogue for:

• Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics eBook collection (RJAH ATHENS password required)
• anaesthetics
• perioperative care
• critical care
• theatre nursing
• Oxford handbooks

 We welcome your suggestions for purchase - please provide details via this online form

Need to buy a book? Ask library staff for suppliers.

• Royal College of Anaesthetists Bulletin (for education, training and setting standards in anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine)
• Subscribe to the CASH (Current Awareness Service for Health) critical care bulletin
• King's Fund alerts includiing their weekly update http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/forms/get-latest-news-fund
• NHS Central Alerting System (includes safety alerts, CMO messages, drug alerts, Dear Doctor letters and Medical Device Alerts issued on behalf of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the National Patient Safety Agency, and the Department of Health.)
• Department of Health and NHS alerts via the .gov.uk website
• WiredGov - the most popular UK government alerting service
• Francis Costello Library blog alerts http://franciscostellolibrary.blogspot.co.uk/ (subscribe by email or RSS feed)

Further sources of alerts and current awareness can be found on the Keep up-to-date page

NHS Leadership Academy  

Online training via Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain (only for members of the Royal College of Anaesthetists)

BMJ Learning - resources for BMA members including hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning sessions in text, video and audio formats

Learn My Way - free online courses in English, Maths, computer skills and more.

Move On - free online courses for those wishing to improve their English and/or Maths skills in order to progress in their career.

 UK Sepsis Trust Clinical Toolkit

The Francis Costello Library has a range of information skills training available which can be tailored to your needs, including critical appraisal. See our Request information skills training page for details. You can also find information about Trust training from this page, by viewing the Trust training prospectus. 

Request a literature search - an experienced, chartered library professional will undertake an exhaustive search of the relevant literature and provide you with the summarised results.

Request a journal article or book

Send us an enquiry [onliine form]

Arrange information skills training

Speak to us about your current awareness needs

Provide us with feedback [online form]

College of Operating Department Practitioners (professional body for ODPs) http://www.codp.org.uk/

Assocation for Perioperative Practice http://www.afpp.org.uk/home

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges http://www.aomrc.org.uk/

Nuffield Trust - an authoratative and independent source of evidence-based research and policy analysis for improving health care in the UK http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/  

Royal College of Anaesthetists http://www.rcoa.ac.uk including their exhaustive links page

CASP critical appraisal checklists, which help you to find and interpret the best available evidence from health research, are available to download from our Journal club support page.

DISCERN - a checklist for authors and producers of written health care information http://www.discern.org.uk/index.php

The library service has recently conducted literature searches on:

• Infection control in relation to theatre attire and floor markings
• Value of patient information leaflets
• Effects of anaesthesia on patients with dementia
• Support for dementia patients within the theatre/recovery environment

In our impact assessment survey over three quarters of respondents said that the literature search results received had influenced patient care or treatment

See the latest staff publications list