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Resources

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Travel Information & Pre-departure Advice

UK FCO Travel Advice

US Travel Advice

Australian Travel Advice

WHO Travel Health Advice

Global Travel Incident Map

British Global and Travel Health Association

Worldwide Ambulance Service Database

International Association of Medical Assistance for Travellers

Find a UK Embassy

Find an Airport: Skyscanner

Overland Route Planning: Rome2Rio

Journals

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Expedition Specific Resources

Royal Geographic Society Expedition Handbook (open access)

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The Oxford HandBook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (a must have book!)

Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine (this two volume mammoth ​of a book is the ultimate reference guide)

Wilderness Medical Society Guidelines

Blood Care (resource to get screened and safe blood products overseas)

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)

Medications and Medical Kits

British National Formulary 

NHS Specialist Service Pharmacy

UKMEC contraceptive guidelines

International Narcotics Control Board (this website can be used to check if it is legal to take medications into a country or not.)

Nomad Travel (has a great pharmacy service)

Vaccinations

NHS Vaccination Advice

Fit for Travel Website

Travel Health Pro (NaTHNaC )

The Greenbook: UK vaccination guidelines

Yellow Fever Advice

WHO Rabies Vaccination Advice

Expedition Dentistry

Wilderness Expedition Dentistry

Mental Health

Addressing Mental Health in the Travel Clinic

Ophthalmology 

Managing Corneal Disorders (CanadiEM FOAM)

Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases

Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK: 2017

Malaria Overview (The Lancet)

An important article about the potential issues of using Larium as an antimalarial

Pro-Med (International Society for Infectious Diseases Outbreak Monitoring)

WHO Model Prescribing Information: Drugs used in Bacterial Infections

British HIV Association Clinical Guidelines

WHO TB Treatment Guidelines

Helminths and Worms

Parasitic Infections

Altitude Medicine

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!)

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness

Extremes of Temperature

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat-Related Illness

Grace D. The management of hyperthermia and exercise-associated hyponatremia in low-resource and prehospital settings. Curr Med Issues 2021;19:165-70

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia

Baby it's Cold Outside (Canadian elearning resource for cold and water immersion)

Dive Medicine

UK Diving Medical Committee Guidance

Worldwide Decompression Chamber Directory

Divers Alert Network

Diving Diseases Research Centre Plymouth

Trauma and Wound Management

World Wide Wounds

Lacerationrepair.com "Closing the Gap" (blog on acute wound care)

Suturing Basics (lacerationrepair.com)

Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines

Trauma Care Webinars

Orthobullets

Humanitarian Medicine

MSF Clinical Guidelines

MSF Public Health Engineering

MSF Essential Drugs

MSF Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care

UKMED Technical Guidelines (a really good mixture of humanitarian healthcare, burns, paediatrics and reproductive health)

WHO Hospital Care for Children

WHO Basic Epidemiology 

Human Factors

Clinical Human Factors Group

Just a Routine Operation

Heuristic Traps

Working with Helicopters

Helicopter Rescue Techniques (National SAR Academy Training Manual)

If you know of a good resource that is missing- please get in touch!

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