Overview

Prevent, evaluate, and manage diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries with The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual. This pragmatic, pocket-sized 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. Pocket-sized format provides access to need-to-know information quickly and easily. 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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Christopher A. Sanford, MD, MPH, DTM&H ,  Elaine C. Jong ,  Paul S. Pottinger, MD
Publisher:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 11.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780323375061

ISBN 10:   0323375065
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   13 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This well written manual serves as an excellent reference for many of the day-to-day issues encountered in a travel medicine practice as well as for medical providers who encounter patients with a post-travel problem. Topics are covered in more detail than in MCQs in Travel and Tropical Medicine: A Primer Of Travel Medicine, Colbert (iUniverse, 2006). The fourth edition has updated many chapters with new information and evidence-based recommendations. - Doody's - 4 Stars - ****? An excellent, concise resource that provides practical information to travel and tropical medicine specialists, health care personnel who work with immigrant and refugee health, and primary care providers in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. The manual has relevant information for providers around the world, not just North America.The excellent, detailed sections on pretravel consultations and the evaluation of fever and skin lesions in returning travelers as well as parasitic infections make this book a miniature, highly concentrated opus on both travel and tropical medicine. - Clinical Infectious Diseases December 2009

a concise yet comprehensive guide covering a wide spectrum of knowledge across disciplines. It is a useful resource for all health professionals who are involved in travel health. This well written manual serves as an excellent reference for many of the day-to-day issues encountered in a travel medicine practice as well as for medical providers who encounter patients with a post-travel problem. Topics are covered in more detail than in MCQs in Travel and Tropical Medicine: A Primer Of Travel Medicine, Colbert (iUniverse, 2006). The fourth edition has updated many chapters with new information and evidence-based recommendations. - Doody's - 4 Stars - ****? An excellent, concise resource that provides practical information to travel and tropical medicine specialists, health care personnel who work with immigrant and refugee health, and primary care providers in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. The manual has relevant information for providers around the world, not just North America.The excellent, detailed sections on pretravel consultations and the evaluation of fever and skin lesions in returning travelers as well as parasitic infections make this book a miniature, highly concentrated opus on both travel and tropical medicine. - Clinical Infectious Diseases December 2009

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions