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Travel medicine for divers
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Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny i Techniki Hiperbarycznej w Gdyni; prezes: dr med. Bartosz Morawiec
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Kierownik Zakładu Epidemiologii i Medycyny Tropikalnej WIM w Warszawie
Submission date: 2018-12-10
Publication date: 2019-01-29
LW 2019;97(2):166-174
HIGHLIGHTS
- The presented article is a fragment of the monograph by Jarosław Krzyżak and Krzysztof Korzeniewski Medicine for Divers, which is to be published in 2019 by Agencja 4Font in Poznań.
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ABSTRACT
All over the world, there has been a sudden increase in the number of international travels, mostly for touristic purposes. Of the growing number of travelers more and more are also recreational divers. Many popular places for diving are located in tropical and subtropical areas (Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean). The essential part of pre‑travel arrangements of diving persons include their health status assessment during medical consultation, preparing all the necessary medications for chronic illnesses and a travel first‑aid kit for personal use, vaccinations, antimalarial chemoprophylaxis, and travel insurance covering the entire travel and not only the moments of going underwater.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
No conflicts of interest were declared.