Resources
Travel Information & Pre-departure Advice
British Global and Travel Health Association
Worldwide Ambulance Service Database
International Association of Medical Assistance for Travellers
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
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
The Greenbook: UK vaccination guidelines
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
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
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!)
Extremes of Temperature
Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite
Baby it's Cold Outside (Canadian elearning resource for cold and water immersion)
Dive Medicine
UK Diving Medical Committee Guidance
Worldwide Decompression Chamber Directory
Diving Diseases Research Centre Plymouth
Trauma and Wound Management
Lacerationrepair.com "Closing the Gap" (blog on acute wound care)
Suturing Basics (lacerationrepair.com)
Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines
Humanitarian Medicine
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
Human Factors
Working with Helicopters
Helicopter Rescue Techniques (National SAR Academy Training Manual)