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Academic Search Premier ++ Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. This collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. ++ This database is included in the Articles Search Box
BioMed Central BioMed Central features over 180 open access (freely available), peer-reviewed journals publishing biomedical research in areas such as biology, biotechnology, neuroscience and various medical specialties. 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL. Content includes: Full text for more than 640 journals, Full text for 220 books/monographs, Full text coverage dating back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains: Author Affiliations, Searchable Cited References, Research Instruments, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons and Search Strategies
PubMed [with LinkOut to fulltext holdings] PubMed is compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is a bibliographic (citation only) database that indexes the literature of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system. It covers more than 4800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries; most records are from English-language sources.
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences provides the full text of over 1,200 journals as well as abstracts of almost 1,900 journals in the health and life sciences including environmental science, bioscience, and health. While indexing may extend back as far as 1965, full-text coverage for the titles included in the Health and Life Sciences Collection begins in 1995.
Anatomy of First Aid This Anatomy of First Aid: A Case Study Approach has been prepared for the United States Navy to furnish a first aid manual that is anatomically and medically correct. It conveys descriptions in anatomical language and graphic illustrations necessary to perform first aid and to communicate with those providing subsequent medical treatment. The booklet considers the area being treated and the dangers and pitfalls involved with first aid in the region. It must be remembered by all that this is First Aid - Initial Emergency Care, that may be performed, in the main, by non-medically trained individuals to be followed by definitive professional medical care. 
eMedicine The original open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields including emergency medicine.
Emergency Response Guidebook
A guidebook for first responders during the initial phase of a dangerous goods / hazardous materials transportation incident.
Merck Manual for Health Professionals The Online Medical Library is updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions. 
MedlinePLUS MedlinePLUS, hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, seeks to provide consumers with authoritative, up-to-date health information. Users can browse through over 700 topic areas (reviewed and updated every six months), and links are provided to over 1250 expert organizations. MedlinePLUS also offers a medical dictionary and encyclopedia, drug information, tutorials, information about diagnostic tests, and daily news updates. Access to MedlinePLUS is unrestricted.
All titles in the Paramedicine Collection This link will list all titles in the Paramedicine Collection in the Holland College Library.
Canadian EHS Research Consortium The Canadian EHS Research Consortium (CERC) is a not-for-profit organization that provides the EHS research community with resources to facilitate research. CERC offers Paramedics from coast to coast positive learning and team experiences along with the opportunity to allow for paramedics to comprehend, plan for and ultimately substantiate the ongoing evolution EHS will experience over the next decade.
Canadian Prehospital Evidence Based Protocols from the Division of Emergency Medical Services, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University.
Center for Research on Emergency Medical Services "The Center for Research on Emergency Medical Services is the nation's leader in the research of Emergency Medical Service (EMS). Our mission is to promote state-of-the-art research on prehospital care, educational practices and resuscitation."
Guide to Diagnostic Tests describes the purpose of common diagnostic tests, details risks, and what to expect from a patient's point of view.
Paramedicine.com This site is maintained by Marc Colbeck, a paramedic instructor who worked as a Critical Care Paramedic in Toronto EMS for 13 years before beginning his career as a teacher.
Published EMS Randomized Clinical Trials "a listing of major randomized or pseudo-randomized clinical trials completed in the prehospital setting."
Auscultation Assistant (Heart Sounds) "The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills."
R.A.L.E.? Repository of respiratory sounds The R.A.L.E.® Repository presents digital recordings of respiratory sounds in health and disease. These are breath sounds that doctors, nurses, respiratory and physical therapists hear with a stethoscope when they auscultate the chest of a patient.
EMS Chiefs of Canada News, alerts, presentations, etc. from the EMS Chiefs of Canada.
Occupational Health and Safety
British Columbia Workers' Compensation Board: Occupational Safety for Health Workers materials to help prevent the most common injuries in health care, including resources on ergonomic injuries, home care, infection control, and hazardous materials.
Health and Safety Issues: Paramedics Q and A document from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.
Paramedic Association of Canada PAC is comprised of over 14,000 paramedics from coast to coast to coast.
Plagiarism Tutorial You quote it, you note it. Excellent plagiarism tutorial produced by the Vaughan Memorial Library at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.