Manual
of Travel Medicine: a pre-travel guide for health care practitioners,
2/e
In this Manual Australian health professionals will find the information
and advice they need to care for travellers.
Pre-travel health care principles are outlined. The Manual is then structured to reflect what is required in a consultation with a person who is planning to travel:
- immunisation;
- malaria prevention and management;
- prevention and management of traveller’s diarrhoea;
- specific infectious and non-infectious conditions;
- advice for travellers with special needs; and
- additional resources for travel health information.
The Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, first published the Manual in 1999. For this second edition:
- Joseph Torresi, Karin Leder, and Daniel O’Brien have joined Allen Yung and Tilman Ruff as authors;
- information and advice on avian influenza, pertussis vaccine, varicella vaccine, SARS, West Nile fever, venous thrombosis, elderly travellers, expatriates and long-term travellers, visiting friends and relatives, and immunocompromised travellers has been included;
- one new chapter (on travel health resources), chapter outlines, key readings, several new maps, and an index have been included; and
- all of the original chapters have been extensively revised.
For doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, this Manual will prove a practical, user-friendly, and authoritative desk-top reference.Bibliographic details:
Published,
November, 2004. 245x170mm. 360 pages
Includes index.
Paperback.
ISBN: 0 9752374 0 3. $75.00.