Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1
January – March 2002

Table of Contents
Editor’s Corner
Is This All? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .1
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Special Reports
Disaster Medicine in the 21st Century: Future Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Risk . . . . . . . .3
Jeffrey L. Arnold, MD

National Strategy for Mass Casualty Situations and Its Effects on the Hospital . . . . . . . . 12
Leon Levi, MD MPH; Moshe Michaelson, MD; Hanna Admi, RN, PhD; David Bregman PhD;
Ronen Bar-Nahor, PhD

Origninal Research
Emergency Medical Assistance Team Response following Taiwan Chi-Chi Earthquake .. . .17
Edbert B. Hsu, MD,MPH; Matthew Ma, MD, PhD; Fang Yue Lin, MD, PhD; Michael J. VanRooyen, MD,
MPH; Frederick M. Burkle, Jr.,MD, MPH

Preventing Post-injury Hypothermia During Prolonged Prehospital Evacuation . . . . . . . . . .23
Hans Husum, MD; Tone Olsen, MD; Mudhafar Murad, MD; Yang Van Heng, MD; Torben Wisborg,MD,
DEAA; Mads Gilbert

Injury Severity Score versus New Injury Severity Score for Penetrating Injuries . . . . .. . . . .27
Hans Husum, MD; Gino Strada, MD

Physician Attitudes About Prehospital 12-Lead ECGs in Chest Pain Patients . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Andrew H. Brainard, BS EMS; Philip Froman, MD; Maria E. Alarcon, MD; Bill Raynovich, EdD(abd);
Dan Tandberg, MD

Evaluation of a Semi-Quantitative CO2 Monitor with Pulse Oximetry for Prehospital Endotracheal Tube Placement and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Shawn George, BSc; Andrew J. Macnab,MD, FRCPC

Interface between Hospital and Fire Authorities — A Concept for Management of Incidents in
Hospitals . . .42
Peter Gretenkort, MD; Professor Henning Harke, MD; Jan Blazejak, MD; Bernd Pache; Georgios Leledakis

Brief Reports
What is the Value of EMS Experience when Applying to Medical School? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Lauren Pipas, MD; Robert F. Audet, Jr., MBA, NREMTP; Lawrence H. Brown, EMT-P

Supplements
Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine . . .S1
Fukuoka, Japan

Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for 25th Nordic Congress on Military Medicine . . . . . . . . .S1
Oslo Norway

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