Accessing and using the internetʹs World Wide Web for emergency physicians

This report describes the use of the internetʹs World Wide Web (WWW) for emergency physicians. WWW is a graphic means of presenting information over the internet. Because this graphic presentation is derived from a point-and-click method of navigating through information, emergency physicians with little or no computer background should be able to benefit. There are currently many resources available to emergency physicians on the WWW that can be viewed at no charge. It is essentially a worldwide library of information that is growing at a rapid rate. An algorithm is presented to assist emergency physicians in deciding how to best access the WWW, depending on the physicianʹs current resources, and some background information required to gain access to WWW is described.