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MCQs in travel medicine / Dom Colbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colbert, Dom, 1934- author.
- Series:
- Oxford specialty training. Revision texts.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford specialty training. Revision texts
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel--Health aspects--Examinations, questions, etc.
- Travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Specifically written for those preparing for examinations and practitioners in travel medicine, 'MCQs in Travel Medicine' contains over 600 multiple choice questions with detailed explanations which both teach and challenge the reader.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 Setting up a travel clinic
- 2 Epidemiological and geographical considerations
- 3 Selected arthropods
- 4 Common gastrointestinal worms
- 5 Vaccines
- General vaccinology
- Specific vaccines
- 6 Pre-travel consultation
- General
- Specific
- 7 Protecting the skin
- Skin and sun
- Insect repellents
- 8 Special groups
- Pregnancy
- Children
- The elderly
- Diabetics
- Asplenics
- Last-minute travellers
- Corporate and frequent travellers
- Urban versus rural holidays
- Missionaries and expatriates
- Pilgrims and mass gatherings
- Visiting friends and relatives
- Disabled travellers
- 9 Adventure travellers
- Potable water
- Rafting
- Climate extremes
- Snakes and scorpions
- Marine envenomations and injuries
- War zones
- 10 Special activities
- Swimming
- Diving
- Mountain climbing
- 11 Fish hazards
- 12 Air travel
- Deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
- Air quality
- Contraindications
- Miscellaneous
- Jet lag
- 13 Medical care overseas
- Accessibility and quality
- Medical evacuation
- 14 Specific medical risks for the traveller
- Travellers' diarrhoea
- Prevention of TD
- Probiotics, prebiotics, and TD
- Skin infestations and infections
- Moving subcutaneous skin lesions
- Malaria
- Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)
- Retrospective diagnosis of malaria
- Filariasis
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Motion sickness
- 15 Selected medical risks in the tropics
- Dengue fever
- Enteric fever
- 16 The returned traveller
- 17 Psychiatric and behavioural problems
- 18 Drugs and travel
- Antimalarials
- Drugs in travellers' diarrhoea
- 19 Self-test
- Appendix: Aide memoire chart for Leishmaniasis, Trypanosomiasis, and Filariasis
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K.
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191831-8
- 0-19-164158-8
- OCLC:
- 958573612
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