LibGuides: Athletic Training (AT): Web Resources

Web Resources

See the following online resources for information on injury care, drugs in sports, drug information, and locations for CPR certification.

Injury Care

Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports The mission of the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) is to provide expertise and leadership to the Association in order to promote a healthy and safe environment for student-athletes through research, education, collaboration and policy development.
Kinesio Taping An alternative taping method to cause physiological effects on certain body systems.
MedlinePlus: Injuries and Wounds A list of injuries from the National Library of Medicine, including information on diagnosis, treatment, and more.
MedlinePlus: Rehabilitation Information from the National Library of Medicine about rehabilitation (including clinical trials, patient handouts, encyclopedia entries, and more.
National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (NCCSIR) Available through the University of North Carolina, the mission of the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (NCCSIR) is to conduct surveillance of catastrophic injuries and illnesses related to participation in organized sports in the United States at the collegiate, high school, and youth levels of play. In working through a Consortium for Catastrophic Injury Monitoring, the NCCSIR aims to track cases through a systematic data reporting system that allows for longitudinal investigation of athletes suffering from catastrophic injuries and illnesses. The goal of the Center is to improve the prevention, evaluation, management, and rehabilitation of catastrophic sports-related injuries.
NCAA Sport Science Institute the NCAA Sport Science Institute works closely with the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports and is committed to serving and educating student-athletes and our membership. The SSI aims to provide college athletes with the best environment for safety, excellence and wellness through research, education, best practices, and collaboration with member schools, national governing bodies, key medical and youth sport organizations, and the public and private sectors.
Sports Injury Clinic - Sports Taping See instructional videos on sports taping categorized by area of the body.

Drug Information

The following resources provide searchable interfaces for pharmaceutical interventions.

DailyMed The DailyMed database contains 143821 labeling submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by companies. DailyMed does not contain a complete listing of labeling for FDA-regulated products (e.g., labeling that is not submitted to the FDA).
Drug Information Portal - National Library of Medicine The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.
Drug Information Resources Library Guide

Lexicomp Online (Clinical Reference Library) This link opens in a new window Contains full text drug information resources and other health care information.

The Medical Letter The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases in its newsletter, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics.
Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs Building on the success of the 14 previous editions, this remarkable reference has been extensively reorganized and expanded and now comprises almost 1,500 individual drug articles providing the most complete coverage of adverse reactions and interactions found anywhere. Each article contains detailed and authoritative information about the adverse effects of each drug, with comprehensive references to the primary literature making this a must have for any academic or medical library, pharmacologist, regulatory organization, hospital dispensary or pharmaceutical company.
Meyler's Side Effects of Herbal Medicines Meyler's Side Effects of Herbal Medicines, named to Doody's Core Titles for 2013, is a derivatrive work based on the acclaimed Meyler's Side Effect of Drugs, Fifteenth Edition. This book summarizes the adverse effects of a large range of herbal medicines and the active ingredients that they contain. It includes extensive lists of the families of plants that are used as herbal medicines, including the Latin names of genera and species as well as the common names of individual plants.

Micromedex Healthcare Series This link opens in a new window A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.

PubChem PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

Drugs in Sports

The following agencies and organizations are responsible for legislation and policy related to drug use in athletics.

National Institute on Drug Abuse A division of the National Institutes of Health dedicated to advancing science on drug use and addiction and applying that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
Office of National Drug Control Policy The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is a component of the Executive Office of the President. The mission of ONDCP is to reduce substance use disorder and its consequences by coordinating the nation's drug control policy through the development and oversight of the National Drug Control Strategy and Budget.
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is the national anti-doping organization (NADO) in the United States for Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American, and Parapan American sport. The organization is charged with managing the anti-doping program, including in-competition and out-of-competition testing, results management processes, drug reference resources, and athlete education for all United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) recognized sport national governing bodies, their athletes, and events.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established in 1999 as an international independent agency composed and funded by the sport movement and governments of the world.

CPR Certification

The following are potential places for CPR certification in Pittsburgh

Allegheny Health Network Classes and Events
American Heart Association
American Red Cross
Center for Emergency Medicine
Duquesne University CPR & AED Training If interested in attending a class, contact Lieutenant Michael Kiryk at 412.396.4935 or kirykm@duq.edu.
UPMC Classes & Events
YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh