Download or read book Travel and Adventure Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America, E-Book written by Paul S. Pottinger and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Paul S. Pottinger and Christopher A. Sanford, is devoted to Travel and Adventure Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Immunizations; Malaria; Personal Protection Measures; Traveler’s Diarrhea; Urban Medicine and Trauma; Care of the Healthcare Provider; Evaluation of the Ill Returned Traveler; The Ethics of Medical Volunteerism; High-Altitude Medicine; Dive Medicine; Wilderness Medicine, Including First Aid & Hypo/Hyperthermia; The Medical Kit; Adventure Sports: Spelunking, water exposures; and Resources for the Provider and Opportunities in Further Training in Travel and Adventure Medicine.