Emtree Editorial Team

Doping Search Guide 2004 Emtree Editorial Team 1.º edición

Paperback. For sports physicians, prescribing medications that are fully compliant with the World Anti-Doping code while abroad can be complicated. Elite athletes frequently travel the globe to train and compete and sometimes require medication. Drugs routinely prescribed by their physicians may not be available, trade names can vary from country to country and even drugs with which they are familiar may be manufactured locally using different active substances. For athletes competing at the international level, the stakes are high and the risk of unintentional doping must be minimized.

Making use of the official List of Prohibited Substances and Methods issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Elsevier has published the Doping Search Guide 2004, designed to help sports physicians, coaches and administrators avoid administering drugs containing prohibited substances. This new publication contains more than 10,000 terms and synonyms for the subst