Travel medicine. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Jay S. Keystone, Phyllis E Kozarsky, Bradley A. Connor, Hans D. Nothdurft, Marc Mendelson, Karin Leder.
• Editors: Keystone, J. S; Kozarsky, Phyllis E; Connor, Bradley A; Nothdurft, Hans D; Mendelson, Marc; Leder, Karin
• Contents: Section 1: Practice of travel medicine. Introduction to travel medicine -- Epidemiology: morbidity and mortality in travelers -- Starting, organizing and marketing a travel clinic -- Pre-travel consultation -- Section 2: The pre-travel consultation. Water disinfection for international travelers -- Insect protection -- Pre-travel considerations for non-vaccine-preventable travel infections -- Travel medicine kits -- Section 3: Immunization. Principles of immunization -- Routine adult vaccines -- Routine travel vaccines: hepatitis A and B, typhoid -- Recommended/required travel vaccines -- Pediatric travel vaccinations -- Section 4: Malaria. Malaria: epidemiology and risk to the traveler -- Malaria chemoprophylaxis -- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria by the traveler -- Approach to patient with malaria -- Section 5: Travelers' diarrhea. Epidemiology of travelers' diarrhea -- Prevention of travelers' diarrhea -- Clinical presentation and management of travelers' diarrhea -- Persistent gastrointestinal symptoms in the ill-returning traveler -- Section 6: Travelers with special needs. The pregnant and breastfeeding traveler -- The pediatric and adolescent traveler -- The older traveler -- The physically challenged traveller -- The traveler with pre-existing disease -- The immunocompromised traveller -- The traveler with HIV -- The business traveler -- The VIP traveler: mission-oriented travel medicine -- Health aspects of international adoption -- Visiting friends and relatives -- Section 7: Travelers with special itineraries. Expatriates: corporate, missionary and volunteer -- The migrant traveler -- Humanitarian aid workers -- The deployed military: medical readiness and travel-related health issues -- Expedition medicine -- Ecotourism -- Medical tourism -- Cruise ship travel -- Mass gatherings -- Section 8: Environmental aspects of travel medicine. High-altitude medicine -- Diving medicine -- Extremes of temperature and hydration -- Jet lag -- Motion sickness -- The aircraft cabin environment -- Section 9: Health problems while traveling. Bites, stings, and envenoming injuries -- Seafood poisining -- Injuries and injury prevention -- Mental health issues of travelers -- Travelers' thrombosis -- Healthcare abroad -- Personal security and crime avoidance -- Section 10: Post-travel. Post-travel screening -- Fever in returned travelers -- Skin diseases -- Eosinophilia -- Respiratory infections -- Appendix. Sources of travel medicine information.
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 562 pages), color illustrations, color maps, color portrait
• Subjects: 613.68; Travel -- Health aspects; Travel -- Health aspects; Travel Medicine -- methods; Communicable Disease Control; Primary Prevention; Travel; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323547710; 0323547710; 9780323546966
• Related ISBNs: 032354696X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ClinicalKey, viewed November 29, 2018).
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