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Note: Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group does not endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any information given in the following pages. None of the information on these pages should be considered health advice.

Each site has been classified into the most appropriate category but many sites have information applicable to more than one category. Sites listed for patients may have useful information for health professionals and sites for health professionals will be fascinating and informative to patients.

If you would like to add a site or reclassify a site, write us at ccmg@healthyhearts.com

CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY MAILING LISTS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS
CARDIOLOGY-AUSCULTATION
CARDIOLOGY-CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE SITES
CARDIOLOGY-DISEASE PREVENTION SITES
CARDIOLOGY-ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SITES
CARDIOLOGY-ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
CARDIOLOGY-ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
CARDIOLOGY-GENERAL SITES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
CARDIOLOGY-GENERAL SITES FOR PATIENTS
CARDIOLOGY-GUIDES TO WEB RESOURCES FOR PATIENTS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
CARDIOLOGY-INVASIVE
CARDIOLOGY-LIPIDS
CARDIOLOGY-NUCLEAR IMAGING
CARDIOLOGY-PACEMAKERS AND DEFIBRILLATORS

CARDIOLOGY-PATHOLOGY SITES
CARDIOLOGY-PEDIATRIC SITES
CARDIOLOGY-SUPPORT GROUPS
CARDIOLOGY-TRANSPLANTATION SITES
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY-SITES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
GENERAL MEDICINE-SITES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
GENERAL MEDICINE- SITES FOR PATIENTS
GENERAL MEDICINE-GUIDES TO WEB RESOURCES FOR PATIENTS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
INTERNET HELP
MEDICAL JOURNALS (including OnLine journals)
MEDICAL SOCIETIES / ASSOCIATIONS
MEDLINE ACCESS
U.S. GOVERNMENT HEALTH / MEDICAL AGENCIES
U.S. GOVERNMENT-HELPFUL NONMEDICAL SITES

CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY MAILING LISTS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS

ACHD-P is for health professionals interested in adult congenital heart disease.

BIT.LISTSERV.TRANSPLANT is an email discussion group for patients with organ transplants and their families. To subscribe send an email with the words "SUB TRNSPLNT followed by your full name" to ListServ@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU or ListServ@WUVMD.BitNet

CARDIAC-PREV (Prevent./Coronary Heart Disease) is a discussion of non-pharmacological prevention of coronary heart disease. The subscription address is MAILSERV@AC.DAL.CA

The CARDIO-CONSULT Mail List is a moderated email network for cardiovascular professionals to discuss case studies, research, and clinical experiences. The subscription address is LISTSERV@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG . The subscription message is " SUBSCRIBE CARDIO-CONSULT your name". You can also contact John Mack, VirSci Corporation at johnmack@hslc.org

To join an international ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY mailing list contact: Daniel Shindler M.D., F.A.C.C. Director, Echocardiography Laboratory Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Email: shindler@umdnj.edu. Alternatively, you can join by going to the following Web location: http://www.makelist.com/subscribe?email=YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS&list=echocardiography&code=51450573.

The HEART ISSUES mailing list is "A mailing list for patients and professionals to discuss all aspects of heart disease." You may subscribe by sending "sub heart-list" (followed by your full name) in the body of a new email to listserv@biomed.med.yale.edu. Postings to the list should be addressed to heart-list@biomed.med.yale.edu.

There is an ICQ discussion group on cardiac surgery at http://groups.icq.com/group.asp?no=670613 .
Other ICQ discussion groups on various topics in medicine can be found at http://groups.icq.com/groups_directory.asp?cat=Science,~Technology,~and~Research
~Networks&subcat=Medicine

MIDCAB Forum Listserv: Cardiac Surgeons and Anesthesiologists are eligible to join.
All aspects of minimally invasive heart surgery will be covered, including pediatric and valve surgery. Send a request to join MIDCABForum directly to moderator@hsforum.com.

NetCME provides interactive CME cases by e-mail. Other CME mailing lists include Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education Discussion List.

The OPEN-HEART-L list specializes in clinical and investigative questions relelvant to the practicing cardiac surgeon. Write to: ListMaster@lists.hsforum.com. Subscription instructions: From: Your Name and your email address. Subject: subscribe OpenHeart-L

PDHeart is a pediatric cardiology mailing list and support group. You subscribe directly from their home page at http://www.strata.ca/~plittle/pdheart.

For the PEDIHEART Pediatric Cardiology Mail List write to heart@medisun.ucsfresno.edu.

PERFLIST is a moderated mailing list for perfusionists, perfusion students, and perfusion assistants. To subscribe to PerfList, send an Email message to PerfListR@aol.com.
providing your name and state whether you are a perfusionist,a perfusion assistant, or a perfusion student.

Another mailing list for perfusionists is Perfusion Pages. To subscribe, write to searlesb@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu

The Thrombolytic (Vascular) Biology Discussion List (THROMBO-SITE) is a moderated forum for the discussion of thrombosis, thrombotic disorders, and hemostasis. You may join the discussion group by sending the message: "SUBSCRIBE THROMBO-SITE your name" to LISTSERV@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG. Substitute your actual name for 'your name' as in "SUBSCRIBE THROMBO-SITE John Doe, MD". You can also visit their e-mail discussion home page.

Two usenet discussion groups are bionet.biology.cardiovascular and sci.med.cardiology.

Other mailing lists of interest to professionals can be found at the American College of Cardiology web page. You will need to login as an ACC member then click the link to Medical Sites. Further health-related mailing lists can be found at FindMail.

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