Hurricane Katrina resources

Elsevier is making it's MD Consult and FIRST Consult medical resources open to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina. The username is KATRINA (all caps) and the password is katrina (all lower case).

MD Consult is a searchable database with 100 full text medical books, over 70 full text journals, access to MEDLINE, Practice Guidelines, Patient Handouts, a Drug Database, and more, MD Consult can best be described as full text access to medical reference books and journals.

FIRST Consult is an evidence-based tool for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedure skills review. FIRST Consult also works on a PDA, FIRST Consult can best be described as a clinical decision support tool to be used at the point of care.

In addition, School of Library and Information Science professor Cavan McCarthy has put together a comprehensive webliography of Katrina-related resources here.