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. Questions are group by topic which is ideal for revision, enabling you to focus on specific areas including adventure travel, travellers' diarrhoea, malaria, sexually transmitted disease, and drugs used in travel medicine. The style and format of the ...

First Aid Guide and Home Doctor - an illustrated survival guide with step-by-step instructions, techniques, explanation of medical tests, and a world-wide list of emergency phone numbers. An illustrated survival guide with step-by-step instructions, a world-wide list of emergency phone numbers, first aid techniques, and detailed description of what-to-do in over 60 medical emergency conditions. Audience:Intended for everyone interested in first aid. No previous knowledge of medicine is nec...

Everything you need for success on the EMT-Paramedic exam in one complete streamlined review! If you want to score high on the EMT-Paramedic exam, you need McGraw-Hill’s EMT-Paramedic. This essential review helps you think through pre-hospital medicine while covering the most critical information. Each chapter begins with a clinical scenario, followed by a bulleted overview of key topics and then summarized by Q&A at the end of every chapter. An introductory chapter of...

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CLICK HERE to download the sample chapter "Basic Care" from Medicine for Mountaineering* The best-selling backcountry medical guide of its kind* This edition includes new chapters on avalanche injuries, drowning, eye disorders, medical evacuations, and lightning* Provides expert information on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, plus medications, medical kits, and ...

This self-test book of self-assessment questions and quizzes that is designed to both test paramedic students learning pathophysiology and help them understand their knowledge gaps by explaining the answers to the questions included.

Urinary Stones are small, solid stones which occur when salts or minerals in the urine become solid crystals inside the kidney.Urinary Stones are formed usually because of the accumulation of salts and minerals especially calcium in the urine.Usually the stones may be so small that they pass out through the urine without the knowledge of the patient.Some however become bigger due to accumulation of the salts and minerals and the concentration of the urine.Th...

A clear, concise and comprehensive guide to staying healthy while abroad.Regardless of why a person is traveling abroad, having up-to-date health information before departing and readily available along the way is critical. Travel Health Guide is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense book written in everyday language by a physician who specializes in travel medicine. This book is essential for new travelers as well as seasoned globetrotters and incl...

Jaundice is the symptom of yellowish discoloration of the skin, mucous membrane and sclera due to accumulation of bile pigments in tissues associated with the increase in serum bilirubin level.Bilirubin is the breakdown product of hemoglobin during the end of life span of a red blood cells.The types of bilirubin are:unconjugated bilirubin which is toxic, fat soluble and cannot be excreted by the kidneysconjugated bilirubin which the hepa...

In this third edition of Manual of Travel Medicine, Australasian healthcare professionals will continue to find the information and advice they need to care for travellers.The Manual is structured as follows:principles of pre-travel healthcare;immunisation;prevention and management of malaria;prevention and management of travellers’ diarrhoea;specific infectious and non-infectious conditions;traveller...

Written by experienced expeditioners, the handbook is organized in to eight main sections and includes information on fieldcraft, diagnosis and treatment of medical problems encountered during an expedition (divided anatomically), environmental hazards, crisis management and issues to be dealt with after returning home. It also covers basic information about how to plan for an expedition, how to keep the expedition members healthy, how to diagnose and manage their medical problems in remote e...

From the author of Perspectives in a Pandemic, "an essential book for those who seek to restore peace and stability in war-torn and disaster areas." —H.E. Nassir Al Nasser, former president, United Nations General AssemblyThe history of tropical medicine is as dramatic as the story of humankind. It has its own myths and legends, including tales of epidemics that destroyed whole civilizations. Today, with silent stealth, tropical diseases still claim more li...