Travel Medicine and Wilderness Medicine - 2020 (The Clinical Medicine Series Book 21)

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Topics include:  Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), how to avoid illness, flying, diving, common parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), travellers diarrhea, red eye in traveler, incubation periods for illnesses, Malaria, insect bites, tick bites, leprosy.  Wilderness and Winter survival techniques.  Step-by-step instructions on finding food, water, shelter, reading a compass and first aid.   How to survive environmental exposures such as extremes of heat, cold, radiation, lightening, snake & spider bites at much more. Features: Edited by Infectious Disease and Emergency Medicine specialists. Written by an Internal Medicine specialist.  This text contains numerous illustrations and is fully referenced.  No other text on the market provides such a collection of succinct and clinically relevant material that can be accessed at the "bedside". Filled with detailed work-ups, treatments, pearls, illustrations, differential diagnosis, references....Everything you ever needed to know about travel issues in an easy to read and navigate format created specifically for the handheld device. Edited by multiple specialists. The perfect text for internists, family physicians, urgent care clinicians, residents, medical students and mid-level providers.New in the 2016 edition: Over 555 illustrations, most in color. 2017 edition with 720 images. 2020 edition has 770 images.  Example of Contents: Links: Pre-trip Evaluation & Basics | Advice to Traveler | Regional Risks | Air Travel | Vaccines | Medical Kit & Emergency (Winter-Wild) Survival | Diarrhea | Illness / Fever in Returned Traveler | Traveler's Red Eye | Malaria | Zoonotic Infections | Ticks | Leptospirosis | Typhoid Fever | Yellow Fever | Jet Lag | Environmental / Exposures | Water Purification | Preamble-Abbrev-Labs | Environmental Exposures: Links: Cold / Hypothermia | Drowning | Heat Illness | Flying & Diving | Hyperbaric Medicine | Altitude Sickness | Bites / Stings | Marine | Medical Kit & Emergency Survival | Winter & Wilderness Survival |Zoonotic Infections: Links: Brucellosis | Rat Bite Fever | Toxoplasmosis | Toxocariasis | Other Parasites | Giardiasis | Leishmaniasis | Leptospirosis | Trypanosomiasis | Other Intestinal Illness | Entamoeba histolytica | Tick Spread Zoonosis | Rickettsial Diseases | Ectoparasites in travelers | PV & Repellents | Rabies | Insect Bites |