Unbound Surgery from Unbound Medicine is the only PDA and online general surgery reference available. The prestigious editorial team is headed up by Theodore Pappas, MD and Gretchen Purcell MD, PhD. Contributors come from institutions such as Duke, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson.
The text on the PDA and the Web is the same. Unbound’s content organization and the user interface make topics quick and easy to find on either. The Web version exploits the medium with extensive use of figures, pictures and videos.
The reliance on the medical literature brings evidence based support to Unbound Surgery. The Web version has references that link to PubMed and, if available, the full text. MEDLINE searching, with the same intuitive interfaces as found in other Unbound products, is also included. Searches and citations are stored and filed into folders in a personalized Library.
Table of Contents Alerts from your favorite journals are pushed to the PDA. NEJM, JAMA, American Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgery and Journal of the American College of Surgeons are among the default journal alerts. You can add alerts from over 250 others.
Overall, Unbound Surgery does what it sets out to do – answer questions quickly. You can view a flash demo and download a PDA trial at http://www.unboundmedicine.com/unbound_surgery_pda_web.htm.