Salt Lake Valley Health Department International Travel Clinic 2001 South State Street S2400 Salt...
-
Upload
luis-revis -
Category
Documents
-
view
214 -
download
1
Transcript of Salt Lake Valley Health Department International Travel Clinic 2001 South State Street S2400 Salt...
Salt Lake Valley Health Department
International
Travel Clinic
2001 South State Street S2400
Salt Lake City, Utah 84190801-468-2813
Typical Visit(by appointment only)
45 Minute Visit: 1-2 people going to 1 country
Specific vaccine recommendations Food and Water precautions Insect Borne diseases Other precautions-Lepto, Schisto & other
parasites Prescriptions-High altitude, Motion
sickness, Malaria, Diarrhea treatment, Yeast infection
Repellants-types and appropriate usage Emergency Evacuation/Medical Insurance
Infectious DiseasesPreventable With Vaccines
Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Typhoid Fever Yellow Fever Meningococcal Measles Polio Japanese Encephalitis Rabies
Illnesses NOT Preventable with vaccines
Malaria Traveler’s Diarrhea Altitude Sickness Leptospirosis Leishmaniasis Dengue Fever Avian Influenza Chikungunya Trypanosomiasis Schistosomiasis Tuberculosis
Up-to-Date Information
Shoreland’s Travax Software Updated Continually
Centers For Disease Control World Health Organization US Dept. of State Detailed Yellow Fever and Malaria Maps Urgent updates via e-mail
Culture Grams
Tools & Education MicroMedex
Promed E-Mail
Members of The International Society of Travel Medicine
Collaboration with University of Utah Infectious Disease Physicians
Nurses have a “Certificate in Travel Health” from ISTM- Competency exam for doctors and nurses who provide travel info
Meet Weekly with Infectious Disease Doctors
Meet Monthly with ID doctors and other travel medicine professionals
Types of Travelers
Business Vacationers Humanitarian Groups Visiting Friends/Relatives Adoption Missionaries
The End