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ESS 113: Emergency Care for the Physically Active: Topics/Keywords

Keywords to Try When Searching

Place quotation marks around phrases of more than 1 word when searching. (EX: "cardiac output") Also NOTE: the example search image below uses a search term that may or may not be relevant to your course material. Keep in mind the image is used to show how to use the terms bulleted below.
 

 

  • cardiac output
  • high performance athletes
  • Olympic athletes
  • professional athletes
  • cardiovascular adaptation
  • cardiovascular response to exercise
  • physical training
  • physical activity
  • physiological response to exercise
  • resistance exercise
  • respiratory response to exercise
  • skeletal muscle adaptation

Subject Headings to Try When Searching

When using an EBSCO database to search subject terms, change the "Select a Field" option to indicate "SU Subject Terms."  Place quotation marks around your subject terms as indicated above. Also NOTE: the example search image below uses a search term that may or may not be relevant to your course material. Keep in mind the image is used to show how to use the terms bulleted below.
 

 

  • ATHLETES — Health
  • EMERGENCY medical services
  • SPORTS medicine
  • SPORTS injuries — Treatment
  • PROFESSIONAL athletes
  • RISK factors
  • CARDIAC arrest
  • ATHLETES -- Medical examinations
  • BRAIN — Concussion
  • EMERGENCY management


Here's an article that highlights some important subject headings and how you can use them together to get good results: Emergency Management of Head and Cervical-Spine Injuries

Finding and Narrowing a Topic

Find ideas in the syllabus, your text, class discussion, or Google News.

   Narrow down a broad topic by asking yourself
   the 5 W's: who? what? where? when? why?

   As you search the databases, looking at
   subject headings and abstracts can help you
                focus your topic.

Boolean Operators

Using Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) with your keywords will help you narrow or expand your results.

The highlighted middle section represents the use of AND. Searching for poverty AND addiction will give you results with both words present. Therefore, your results are fewer.

Using OR between similar keywords will give you results that include both words. Therefore, your results are greater. A search for teenagers OR adolescents will retrieve either or both terms.

The NOT operator gives you results from only one of your words. Therefore, your results are fewer. Searching for addiction NOT alcohol will eliminate alcohol from the results.

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