Searching the Internet

Before we do this exercise you may like to study some background reading on internet search engines including:

"Mrs. Bloggs, 56 year old lady for a D&C for menorrhagia. Haemoglobin 11g/dl but otherwise a fit and healthy lady weighing 60Kg with no predisposing factors towards difficult intubation. She tells you that she is terrified of anaesthetics because her father died from one in the early 1970's due to a severe pyrexia in the first few hours post op."

And the questions?

Let us use some of the internet search engines and see what answers we get?

Search engines to try:

Again post any interesting findings you have onto the mailing list tutorial@palmer.net.au

How did you get on. Email the group with your main conclusions about using this type of search technology and the quality of the material you found. Be aware that there is software you can download which will run a search on several sites simultaneously and collate the results. Have a look at some of the links from this site.

Specialist Medical Search Engine

For the next exercise look at a specialist search engine which deals primarily with web sites covering medical content: "Medical World Search"

Compare your findings with this search engine to the others.