title: Accident and emergency medicine--making waves on the Internet.
abstract: The internet is a communications and information tool which has recently entered the world of accident and emergency (A&E) medicine. It is a worldwide instrument facilitating the dissemination of ideas and clinical information in the specialty. It is being embraced by all disciplines involved in A&E medicine. Part I introduces the internet to those in A&E medicine unfamiliar with this technology. It describes the varied resources of the internet in A&E medicine and speculates on its future role. Part II supplies the reader with the necessary information to get on-line and explains some of the more technical aspects of the internet.
authors.affiliation: Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK. J.M.Ryan@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baldock
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lawson-Smith
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000639:trends; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans