This review will focus on infectious diseases. A large series reviewing in-flight emergencies indicated that infectious diseases accounted for 2.8 percent of emergencies and no death. In this situation, physicians present aboard provided almost half of the initial in-flight medical care.In order to anticipate how modern technologies for medical laboratory and internet transmission of data may help reducing the medical deserts during travel, it is useful to briefly review the medical syndromes and situations most frequently encountered during travel, and then review how point-of-care (POC) laboratories may help resolving this issue. Indeed, POCs have been invented to provide patients and doctors with near-to patient, rapid diagnosis of some urgent diseases requiring some rapid medical decisions regarding the necessity for hospitalization, the necessity for isolating a contagious patient and the necessity to start a specific medical treatment such as an appropriate antimicrobial in the case of diagnosed infectious disease.
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