November
We have moved ... but not far!
Only our street address has changed and this is now: Ground Floor, 473 Victoria Street, West Melbourne 3003. All telephone and fax numbers are unchanged.
Psychotropic 6 now available
Therapeutic Guidelines: Psychotropic 6 is an essential guide for the appropriate management of patients with mental illness. Extensively revised and updated, Psychotropic 6 represents a balanced assessment of the available evidence, with a focus on its clinical application.
Major revisions include:
- Increased emphasis on monitoring and management of physical co-morbidities that commonly occur with psychiatric illness
- Examination of nonpharmacological as well as pharmacological treatment options
- Treatment of psychiatric illness in special patient groups such as older persons, those with diabetes or cardiac disease
- Recommendations for treatment of depression, including the table: Antidepressant-free intervals recommended when changing from one antidepressant to another
- Extensively rewritten information on mood disorders, in particular for management of bipolar disorder
- Comprehensive section on behavioural emergencies, with recommendations for treatment in both acute medical and acute psychiatric settings
- A comprehensive chapter on substance use disorders
- Emphasis on comprehensive treatment plans for disorders in childhood and adolescence, including depression, ADHD and anxiety
- Further information on patient resources, support organisations, useful websites and further reading.
October
Inaugural Visiting Editor Fellow
Dr Siddhartha Gupta from India recently spent four weeks at Therapeutic Guidelines Limited (TGL). The purpose of his visit was to study how we prepare and distribute independent therapeutic information in Australia. His trip was jointly sponsored by TGL and the International Society of Drug Bulletins.
Dr Gupta has been involved in the rational drug movement in India for two decades and is a member of the editorial board of BODHI (Bulletin of Drug and Health Information) and Asukh-Bisukh, a bimonthly publication on health information and rational therapy for consumers. He works as a pathologist in a government hospital in Kolkata, and is completing a PhD in molecular biology (on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis).
As well as participating in training sessions with the TGL production team and marketing department, Dr Gupta attended meetings of the Endocrinology and Respiratory Expert Groups. He spent a day visiting general practitioners in the TGL Evaluation Network. He also visited Australian Prescriber in Canberra, the National Prescribing Service in Sydney and the Therapeutic Advice and Information Service at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne.
TGL was delighted to host Dr Gupta and hopes that the training he received will contribute usefully to his editorial work in India.
September
Great news for handheld device users! miniTG is now available for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
Current subscribers to miniTG can install it directly to their iPhone. miniTG requires the iSilo document reader to be installed on the handheld device. iSilo can be purchased from the Apple App Store. For current miniTG subscribers, detailed installation instructions are available. For those considering a miniTG subscription, a demonstration version of miniTG is also available for trial.
Please note, while initial testing suggests that miniTG works well on iPhone and iPod touch, there may be some minor issues with certain content, such as large images, displaying incorrectly. These compatibility issues are expected to be resolved in upcoming miniTG releases.
A subscription to miniTG may be obtained through the purchase page of this website.
July
Prevention of endocarditis: update available
Further to new guidelines produced by the American Heart Association, TGL liaised with the Heart Foundation and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and set up a special cross-disciplinary expert group to update the topic in Therapeutic Guidelines, Prevention of endocarditis.
In summary, the changes are:
View the update through our demonstration version of eTG complete.
Download a printable version of the update.
New Cardiovascular 5 now available
Therapeutic Guidelines: Cardiovascular 5 is an essential guide to the management of cardiovascular disease. The importance of assessing and lowering a patient's overall risk of cardiovascular disease is emphasised. Cardiovascular 5 presents recommended strategies to reduce this risk by both pharmacological and nonpharmacological means.
Key improvements include:
- Cardiovascular disease risk reduction - successful lifestyle and other interventions for which there is excellent evidence of efficacy. Includes new target ranges for blood pressure and lipids
- Coronary ischaemic syndromes - reflects the latest Australian and international guidelines, and gives advice on emergency management
- Heart failure - recommended emergency medicine and combination therapy approaches for the management of patients with heart failure
- Venous thromboembolism - new recommendations for the prevention of venous thromboembolism
- Noncardiac surgery in patients with cardiovascular disease - management strategies that many rural doctors and junior medical staff will find of particular value.
miniTG now compatible with selected Blackberry PDAs
Great news for Blackberry users. miniTG can now be used on selected Blackberry PDAs using iSilo. BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 series, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 series, or BlackBerry® 8800 series devices are now compatible. For more information, click here.
Developing Countries Fund's Youngest ever donor!
TGL thanks Joanna Layton, aged 7, of Box Hill South, Victoria, who in June became the TGL Developing Countries Fund's youngest donor.
In making her donation, Joanna said "I am proud to be able to donate to the fund and help people in developing countries".
For more information, see support for the developing world: Therapeutic Guidelines Charitable Fund >>
New Toxicology and Wilderness title now available
Following the release of the new emergency medicine content in eTG and miniTG, selected topics have been condensed into a new, convenient and compact print title called Therapeutic Guidelines: Toxicology & Wilderness. Written by the Therapeutic Guidelines Emergency Medicine Expert Group, it has been developed as a guide for health professionals who may be faced with Australian emergency situations.
