Delivering the facts to your fingertips, the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine provides an accessible and comprehensive, signs-and-symptoms-based source of information on medical problems commonly seen in the tropics. A handy guide which can fit in the coat pocket and be used easily at the bedside, it has been designed to be as practical as possible with illustrations of blood films and stool smears, which are useful for diagnosis, as well as clinical features, diagnosis, and management. Medical conditions are ordered by system except for the five major tropical conditions - malaria, HIV/STIs, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, and acute respiratory infections - and fevers. In this new edition the sections on malaria, cardiology, chest medicine, gastroenterology, mental health and dermatology have undergone major revision, and there is new material on altitude sickness, heat stroke, avian flu and fuller poisoning. There is a greater emphasis on pediatric medicine and public health throughout, and new illustrations and photographs have been included to aid with diagnosis. Small enough to throw in your rucksack, this unique handbook is the ultimate quick reference guide for all those working in the tropics.
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`Review from previous edition The handbook delivers the facts to your fingertips... if I had 425g of luggage allowance to spare I would throw it in my rucksack!' S B Welby in Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
`A strong point of the handbook is its range of practical protocols developed by the WHO. These allow a structured approach to patient care and can be adapted to national policies and local conditions, used for easy reference, and disseminated appropriately.' John Hartley, University College London Hospital
`This is an invaluable resource... this book will answer all of your questions about tropical medicine in a concise manner and suggest a plain and easy to follow treatment plan.' Reviewer on Amazon
`... is an excellent resource for those working in low-resource circumstances. ... it attempts to provide common sense, rational and relevant information and advice (...)for those working within the tropics and in resource-poor settings, it is unique, practical and excellent resource and can be thoroughly recommended.' Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005
`The pocket sized format, with robust plasticized cover ensuring its portability and durability, combined with concise yet highly informative coverage of a vast number of topics will ensure the continued success of the second edition of this popular handbook... I have no reservations in recommending the second edition of the OHTM to both students and practitioners of tropical medicine. Whether working in the tropics or in resource-rich settings, this handbook will certainly prove its worth.' Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2005
`This is a well-written, reasonably comprehensive handbook of clinical tropical medicine that will be very useful for the practitioner in an isolated setting.' Doody's Journal May 2005
`A strong point of the handbook is its range of practical protocols developed by the WHO. These allow a structured approach to patient care and can be adapted to national policies and local conditions, used for easy reference, and disseminated appropriately.' John Hartley, University College London Hospital
`This is an invaluable resource... this book will answer all of your questions about tropical medicine in a concise manner and suggest a plain and easy to follow treatment plan.' Reviewer on Amazon
`... is an excellent resource for those working in low-resource circumstances. ... it attempts to provide common sense, rational and relevant information and advice (...)for those working within the tropics and in resource-poor settings, it is unique, practical and excellent resource and can be thoroughly recommended.' Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005
`The pocket sized format, with robust plasticized cover ensuring its portability and durability, combined with concise yet highly informative coverage of a vast number of topics will ensure the continued success of the second edition of this popular handbook... I have no reservations in recommending the second edition of the OHTM to both students and practitioners of tropical medicine. Whether working in the tropics or in resource-rich settings, this handbook will certainly prove its worth.' Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2005
`This is a well-written, reasonably comprehensive handbook of clinical tropical medicine that will be very useful for the practitioner in an isolated setting.' Doody's Journal May 2005
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Michael Eddleston is Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Robert Davidson is a Consultant Physician at Northwick Park Hospital and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, UK. Andrew Brent is a Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases at the Nuffield Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Centre for Tropical Medicine in Oxford, UK. Robert Wilkinson is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Tropical Medicine at Imperial College in London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
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An indispensable resource for tropical diseases,
By William Long, M.D. (Canal Winchester, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)
I purchased this book prior to travelling on a medical mission trip to Malawi, Africa. It was extremely valuable, particularly for dealing with tuberculosis, malaria, and the complicated issues of malnutrition. The classification of diarrheal illnesses was superb. While I am a pediatrician here in the U.S., I was called upon to care for adults in Malawi, and this book was extremely helpful to jog my memory and assist me in the care of all of the people. One of the book's main assets is the size, which easily fits into a white-coat pocket or backpack. It much more practical than the traditional and cumbersome texts on tropical medicine. My partner borrowed the book for a trip to Cambodia and also found it to be useful. This book in combination with the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy is all the printed resource one will need when travelling to a tropical country to practice medicine.
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential luggage for the wandering doc.,
By Annette Lopes (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)
This book probably contains the most information on tropical medicine that any non-specialist is ever likely to be able to carry in any form, written, electronic or memorised. It's small enough to slip into the jeans pocket, rugged enough to survive the tropical storm and practical enough to make you treat typhoid safely and effectively with no prior experience. One particular advantage is that, unlike other and larger books on "tropical medicine", it is intended for those who actually happen to work there, rather than for courses conducted in First world countries. That means that it is not simply an endless review of increasing rare eponymous parasitoses that dwells long and lovingly on their appearances on CT and MRI, while being correspondingly vague on their actual treatment. Rather it is a strictly practical manual of the diseases which happen to be endemic in most tropical countries and the management options that are likely to be available in relatively poor countries. As a result, it really functions as the tropical equivalent of its older brother, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine - every junior doctor's best friend. The mark of Collier and Longmore is apparent not just in the familiar format, but also in the terse, clear (but never merely dogmatic) recommendations for management and also is the gentle good humour with which they are delivered. Admittedly, that strength can also be a weakness. Substantial chunks of the book appear to have been largely lifted from the last edition of big brother. And, perhaps as a result, some of the treatment recommendations seem a year or two out of date, especially in fast-changing fields such as the management of heart failure. Nevertheless, no doctor should venture south of Dover (or Miami) without this book tucked firmly and comfortingly into the back pocket of her jeans.
40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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TROPICAL MEDICINE,
By MARK S. ABEL (ROCKY MOUNT,NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)
I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE DURING A MONTH LONG STINT IN A MISSION HOSPITAL IN TOGO, WEST AFRICA. THIS BOOK IS CONCISE AND WELL ORGANIZED AND THOROUGH. IT IS EASY TO USE AND SMALL ENOUGH TO CARRY IN YOUR POCKET. FOR THOSE WHO ARE WELL VERSED IN WESTERN MEDICINE BUT INEXPERIENCED IN TROPICAL MEDICINE, THIS IS AN INVALUABLE RESOURSE THAT WILL MAKE YOUR NEW EXPERIENCE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE. THIS BOOK WILL ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT TROPICAL MEDICINE IN A CONCISE MANNER AND SUGGEST A PLAIN, EASY TO FOLLOW TREATMENT PLAN. I LEFT MY COPY ON THE MISSION FIELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW ME, BUT WHEN I RETURN I WILL BE SURE TO HAVE ANOTHER COPY FOR MYSELF. MARK S. ABEL, MD
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