Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual

Name: Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
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ISBN: 9781416026136

ISBN-10: 1416026134

ISBN-13: 9781416026136

Edition: 4th 2008

Authors: Elaine C. Jong, Christopher A. Sanford, Christopher A. Sanford, Christopher A. Sanford

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Heres a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether youre a physician, traveler, or both, this respected manual is your perfect source for quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information. The books architecture has been improved, with updates and additional material, for a sleek new design that offers rapid access to the content you need. The fourth edition features more critical content than ever beforeincluding new evidence-based recommendations, new maps and illustrations, and a new travel medicine pharmacopeia. From pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and…

Book details

List price: $75.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 8/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 696
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.45" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Carl R. Branan has more than 40 years of worldwide experience in process design and troubleshooting in oil, chemicals, fibers, polymers, coal, natural gas, and LNG. Before retiring from El Paso Natural Gas, he served a process engineer, plant engineer, and project engineer. Mr. Branan is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is the author of several books on process engineering and fractionators, including Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers.




Pre-Travel Advice



Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit



Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities



Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler



Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine



Immunizations For Travelers



Malaria Prevention



Traveler's Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment



Water Disinfection



Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders



Advice for Special Travelers'



Altitude Illness



Diving Medicine



Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents



Advice for Women Travelers



Travel & HIV Infection



Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions



Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers



The Business Expatriate



Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees



Fever



Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment



Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever



Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants



Leptospirosis



Lyme Disease



Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants



Chagas' Disease



African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)



Diarrhea



Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers



Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections



Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes



Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes



Skin Lesions



Approach to Tropical Dermatology



Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections



Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation



Fungal Skin Infections



Leishmaniasis



Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)



Sexually Transmitted Diseases



Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel



Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease



Syphilis



Genital Ulcer Disease



Worms



Common Intestinal Roundworms



Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis



Filarial Infections



Trematodes



The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection