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...

Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for all expedition medics and well-informed travellers, as well as nurses, paramedics, medical students, and other expedition members travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world. Now containing more guidance about caving medicine, the third edition includes revised and additional illustrations and essential maps of the spread of diseases. Cl...

Los parásitos son organismos ominipresentes quienes, desde tiempos históricos, han sido asociados como causales de enfermedades de magnitud diversa llegando incluso a generar epidemias y pandemias. Hoy en día, algunas parasitosis constituyen aún problemas importantes de salud como el dengue y la malaria. Debido a las características de transmisibilidad y patogenicidad de las parasitosis, las medidas encaminadas a su prevención y tratamiento oportuno son de vital importancia.Dividid...