Protocols and practice in travel medicine
| dc.contributor.author | Fry, Graham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-06T09:12:08Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-06T09:12:08Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-11 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/558984 | en |
| dc.description | The major outbreak of ebola in West Africa over the past months has helped focus our minds on the seriousness of many tropical diseases and the ease in which they can travel from place to place across our planet. We have seen National Isolation Units throughout Europe being dusted off for the first time in many years to be ready to provide suitable care for and possible cases of a foreign haemorrhagic fever reaching our shores. Every patient returning home ‘from Africa’ is suspected as a possible threat despite the fact that ebola is a relatively difficult disease to contract under normal circumstances. Unfortunately the more common serious and infectious diseases may be over-looked under these circumstances with devastating effects for patient and practitioner alike. As practitioners involved in providing healthcare for the international traveller we have three clear periods of time where we have the opportunity to assist our patients to help ensure that all they return home with is good memories. This can be identified as the 3 Ps of travel medicine; pre (departure), present (overseas) and post (exposure). | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Nursing in General Practice | en |
| dc.subject | TRAVEL MEDICINE | en |
| dc.subject | CLINICAL PRACTICE | en |
| dc.subject.other | PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS | en |
| dc.title | Protocols and practice in travel medicine | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Nursing in General Practice | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-26T21:08:06Z |
