The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual

Here's a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether you're a physician, traveler, or both, this respected manual is your perfect source for quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information. New updates and additional material are presented in a sleek new design that offers rapid access to the content you need. The fourth edition features more critical content than ever before-including new evidence-based recommendations and new maps and illustrations. From pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of travel-related illnesses, you'll have all the information you need to avoid, recognize, and treat illnesses acquired away from home in a convenient, pocket size guide. INDICE: Section 1: Pre-Travel Advice01 Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit02 Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities 03 Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler 04 Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine05 Immunizations For Travelers06 Malaria Prevention07 Traveler's Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment08 Water Disinfection09 Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders Section 2: Advice for Special Travelers'10 Altitude Illness11 Diving Medicine12 Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents13 Advice for Women Travelers14 Travel & HIV Infection 15 Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions16 Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers17 The Business Expatriate18 Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees Section 3: Fever19 Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment 20 Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever21 Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants22 Leptospirosis23 Lyme Disease 24 Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants25 Chagas' Disease26 African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)Section 4: Diarrhea27 Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers28 Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections29 Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes 30 Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic SyndromesSection 5: Skin Lesions 31 Approach to Tropical Dermatology32 Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections33 Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation34 Fungal Skin Infections35 Leishmaniasis36 Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)Section 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases37 Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel 38 Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease39 Syphilis 40 Genital Ulcer DiseaseSection 7: Worms 41 Common Intestinal Roundworms42 Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis 43 Filarial Infections44 Trematodes 45 The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection

• ISBN: 978-0-323-37506-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 696
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés