Resources
Travel Information & Pre-departure Advice
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British Global and Travel Health Association
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Worldwide Ambulance Service Database
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International Association of Medical Assistance for Travellers
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Overland Route Planning: Rome2Rio
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Journals
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Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
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Expedition Specific Resources
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Royal Geographic Society Expedition Handbook (open access)
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The Oxford HandBook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (a must have book!)
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Wilderness Medical Society Guidelines
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Blood Care (resource to get screened and safe blood products overseas)
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CDC "Yellow Book." (This is an excellent free resource giving advice on a huge range of topics, such as traveler's diarrhoea, the management of animal bites, fever in the returning traveller and much more)
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Medications and Medical Kits
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NHS Specialist Service Pharmacy
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UKMEC contraceptive guidelines
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International Narcotics Control Board (this website can be used to check if it is legal to take medications into a country or not.)
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Nomad Travel (has a great pharmacy service)
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Vaccinations
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The Greenbook: UK vaccination guidelines
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Expedition Dentistry
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Wilderness Expedition Dentistry
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Mental Health
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Addressing Mental Health in the Travel Clinic
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Ophthalmology
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Managing Corneal Disorders (CanadiEM FOAM)
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Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases
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Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK: 2017
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An important article about the potential issues of using Larium as an antimalarial
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Pro-Med (International Society for Infectious Diseases Outbreak Monitoring)
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WHO Model Prescribing Information: Drugs used in Bacterial Infections
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British HIV Association Clinical Guidelines
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Altitude Medicine
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UIAA Medical Commission Guidelines: (Everything you need to know about altitude including the management of AMS, HACE, HAPE, the use of portable hyperbaric chambers, the impact of altitude on diabetes, contraception and more!)
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Extremes of Temperature
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Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite
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Baby it's Cold Outside (Canadian elearning resource for cold and water immersion)
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Dive Medicine
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UK Diving Medical Committee Guidance
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Worldwide Decompression Chamber Directory
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Diving Diseases Research Centre Plymouth
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Trauma and Wound Management
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Lacerationrepair.com "Closing the Gap" (blog on acute wound care)
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Suturing Basics (lacerationrepair.com)
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Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines
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Humanitarian Medicine
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MSF Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care
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UKMED Technical Guidelines (a really good mixture of humanitarian healthcare, burns, paediatrics and reproductive health)
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WHO Hospital Care for Children
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Human Factors
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Working with Helicopters
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Helicopter Rescue Techniques (National SAR Academy Training Manual)
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