Description
Prevent, evaluate, and manage diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries with The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual. This pragmatic resource equips medical providers with the knowledge they need to offer effective aid, covering key topics in pre- and post-travel medicine, caring for immigrants and refugees, and working in low-resource settings. It's also the perfect source for travelers seeking quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information.- Dynamic images illustrate key concepts for an enhanced visual understanding.- Evidence-based treatment recommendations enable you to manage diseases confidently.- Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.- Evidence-based appendix, available at Expert Consult, helps to validate treatments.- Highlights new evidence and content surrounding mental health and traveling.- Covers emerging hot topics such as Ebola virus disease, viral hemorrhagic fevers, the role of point-of-care testing in travel medicine, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in returning travelers and students traveling abroad.- Includes an enhanced drug appendix in the back of the book.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Pre-Travel Advice01Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit02Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities03Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler 04Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine05Immunizations For Travelers06Malaria Prevention07Traveler's Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment08Water Disinfection09Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders Section 2: Advice for Special Travelers'10Altitude Illness11Diving Medicine12Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents13Advice for Women Travelers14Travel & HIV Infection15Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions16Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers17The Business Expatriate18Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees Section 3: Fever19Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment 20Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever21Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants22Leptospirosis23Lyme Disease 24Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants25Chagas' Disease26African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)Section 4: Diarrhea27Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers28Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections29Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes 30Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic SyndromesSection 5: Skin Lesions 31Approach to Tropical Dermatology32Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections33Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation34Fungal Skin Infections35Leishmaniasis36Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)Section 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases37Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel 38Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease39Syphilis 40Genital Ulcer DiseaseSection 7: Worms 41Common Intestinal Roundworms42Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis 43Filarial Infections44Trematodes 45The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection
