McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Enhanced by Premier Emergency Medicine Resource

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a leading provider of print and digital reference and educational content for the healthcare industry, today announced the online release of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, the leading emergency medicine reference. Now available with McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com and published in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine online is the undisputed defining resource for clinical emergency care.

Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide is the foremost reference used in emergency departments worldwide by all emergency medicine providers. Now for the first time, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine on AccessMedicine.com meets the immediate information needs of the emergency department by facilitating fast, accurate diagnosis and treatment of all conditions.

"We are honored to bring Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine online," said Michael Hays, vice president of McGraw-Hill Digital. "When a clinician treats a patient with an emergency condition, time is of the essence. Making the vital information in Tintinalli available quickly and easily online creates a powerful live-saving tool, as well as an invaluable academic resource."

Integrated into McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com clinical library, the full text of the most recent edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide provides the latest guidelines for emergency care.

In addition, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine online has powerful enhancements including the fully integrated Gold Standard Clinical Pharmacology drug database. The drug database provides real-time information for more than 50,000 prescription and OTC drugs including indications and contraindications, dosage, interactions, adverse reactions, costs, patient education in English and Spanish, color pill photographs, and more.

To deliver urgent content in a rapid fashion, AccessMedicine's innovative semantic search technology adds descriptive keywords to each paragraph of content. The result is a search capability with pinpoint precision. To fine- tune the already-powerful search engine, the editors, leading experts in the field, adapted terms specific to emergency medicine to deliver high-yield results for key concepts.

About McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online service that provides instant answers from trusted content for researchers, students, residents, practitioners, and allied health professionals. Updated daily, AccessMedicine provides access to world-renowned medical references including Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, a LANGE educational library, and much more. The premier resource for medical information, AccessMedicine includes special features including content updates, the Gold Standard Clinical Pharmacology drug database, an innovative search platform, the ability to download content to a mobile device, and much more. For more information, visit http://www.accessmedicine.com/.

About the American College of Emergency Physicians

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the largest national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine, with more than 23,000 members. ACEP is committed to improving the quality of emergency care through continuing education, research and public education. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53 chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government Services Chapter represents emergency physicians employed by military branches and other government agencies.

About McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing is a leading global provider of print and digital reference and educational content for the healthcare industry. It is a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), a global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as McGraw-Hill Education, Standard & Poor's and BusinessWeek. Founded in 1888, the Corporation has more than 290 offices in 37 countries. Sales in 2003 were $5.3 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

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