Paediatric Respiratory Examination
Paediatric Respiratory Examination, developed by leading specialists in child health, uses a unique series of filmed clinical cases and illustrated presentations to demonstrate the differential diagnosis and clinical presentation of common conditions, including asthma, pneumonia, bronchiolitis and bronchiectasis.
Users can listen to bronchial breathing of a young girl with a right lower lobe pneumonia, watch the static cilia on a strip of airway epithelium from a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia, see the effects of oral steroids and beta-2-agonists on a young child with acute asthma exacerbation and look down a bronchoscope at a tiny silver star lodged in an infant's epiglottis. The programme is aimed mainly at junior doctors and medical students, nurses and physiotherapists and GPs who want to brush up on their diagnostic skills, as well as for consultants who require a teaching aid.
- Asthma
- Stridor
- Tracheostomy
- Bronchiectasis
- Pneumonia
- Examination
- Bronchiolitis
- Neo-natal
- 50 minutes of video and 100 minutes of audio
- Intuitive navigation system using drop down menus
- Narration expanding concise text or accompanying videos
- Hot-linked definitions throughout
- Single page glossary
- Approved for 8 CPD points by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The authors and designers should be congratulated for producing a CD-Rom which is highly intuitive and easy to navigate. The pictures, videos and case studies are of high quality and can be viewed with an informative running commentary, although unfortunately the commentaries cannot be fast forwarded or rewound to find passages of particular interest. The case studies provide excellent examples of classic paediatric auscultatory findings such as wheeze, stridor, and the fine inspiratory crepitations of bronchiolitis.
The Paediatric Respiratory Examination CD-Rom serves as a good template on which other system examination CD-Roms could be designed.The recordings are clear and the sound quality is of a high standard. The CD consists of 50 minutes of video and 100 minutes of audio. The navigation through its various sections cannot be any simpler. It is certainly user friendly.
For undergraduate students it is almost impossible to show them all the necessary respiratory signs during their clinical attachment, hence a CD like this is so valuable.
It is a good "guidance tool" for postgraduate clinical training. Although it does not replace the bedside teaching I am sure clinical teachers in paediatrics or general practice would find it useful to show their trainees the difference between various physical signs within a brief period without having to inconvenience or distress a child. I think it is also of value for nursing staff and other health professionals.This CD Rom has 50 minutes video and 100 minutes audio. It is for junior doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, GPs, and for use as a teaching aid.
Subjects taught are asthma, tracheostomy, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, stridor, bronchiectasis, examination and the neonate. Drop down menus expand each subject into, for example, definitions, history, clinical examination, and clinical cases. A chance to hear narration expanding the concise text or accompanying the videos is present on most pages. Videos show clinical cases with excellent clinical signs. Clicking highlighted text brings up definitions with related narration and video. There is also a single page glossary with links for viewing at any time.
Students liked the uncluttered layout, finding it easy to navigate. They appreciated the many clinical signs demonstrated, many of which they had read about but not yet seen in their attachments. The audio prompts ensured that they did not miss the more important features. The glossary was particularly helpful for quick reference, when they did not have time to go through whole sections of the CD-Rom. The sound production was of extremely high quality.
Junior doctors also found it useful for revision but would have found a reference page helpful. One senior paediatrician thought it was "brilliant", especially as it endorsed her view that wheeze is difficult to appreciate without a stethoscope. We have been promised that there will be several copies of this in the library for us to look at before the next lecture.- 200MHz processor
- 170 Mb free hard drive space
- 32 MB RAM
- CD-ROM drive
- 800*600 16 bit colour display
- Windows 95,98,NT 3.5 or 4, 2000, XP
- Sound Blaster-compatible sound card
