Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 4
October – December 2004

Editor’s Corner
Making a Difference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .285
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Original Research
Half-A-Million Strong: The Emergency Medical Services Response
to a Single-Day, Mass-Gathering Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Michael J. Feldman, MD, PhD; Jane L. Lukins, MBBS; P. Richard Verbeek, MD, FRCPC;
Russell D. MacDonald, MD, MPH, FRCPC; Robert J. Burgess, A-EMCA, ACP;
Brian Schwartz, MD, CCFP (EM), FCFP

Seismic Intensity and Risk of Cerebrovascular Stroke: 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Shigeru Sokejima, MD; Yoshimi Nakatani, MNSc; Kazuomi Kario, MD; Kazunori Kayaba, MD;
Masumi Minowa, MD; Sadanobu Kagaminori, MD

Suicides in Los Angeles County in Relation to the Northridge Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Kimberley Shoaf, DrPH; Cary Sauter, MPH; Linda B. Bourque, PhD;
Christian Giangreco, MPH; Billie Weiss, MPH

Implementing the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System:
An Integrated Delivery Systems Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Richard D. Zane, MD; Ann L. Prestipino, MPH

Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit of Alternatives to Improve Training
For Prehospital Trauma Care in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Carlos Arreola-Risa, MD; Charles Mock, MD, PhD;
Alejandro J. Herrera-Escamilla, Lic; Ismael Contreras, EMT-A; Jorge Vargas, EMT-I

Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Hazards:
Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
Area on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)/
World Health Organization (WHO)

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Locations in a Rural Community: Where Should We Place AEDs? . . . . . . . . . . .352
Marc E. Portner, MD; Marc L. Pollack, MD, PhD; Steven K. Schirk, MD; Melissa K. Schlenker, BS

Prehospital Spirtituality: How Well Do We Know Ambulance Patients? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356
Timothy Jang, MD; George D. Kryder; Douglas Char, MD; Randy Howell, DO;
Joseph Primrose, MD; David Tan, MD

Prehospital Use of Aspirin Rarely Is Associated With Adverse Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
Dan Quan, MS, IV; Frank LoVecchio, DO, MPH; Bryan Clark, DO; John V. Gallagher, III, MD

Brief Report
Where's the Tube? Evaluation of Hand-held Ultrasound in Confirming
Endotracheal Tube Placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366
R. Chun, MD, FRCPC; A. W. Kirkpatrick, MD, FRCSC, FACS; M. Sirois, MD, FRCSC;
A. E. Sargasyn, MD; S. Melton, PEng; D. R. Hamilton, FRCPC, PhD; S. Dulchavsky, MD, FACS, PhD

Forum
Letter To The Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
Julian M. Sandell; I. K. Maconochie

Abstracts
Spanish Translations of Selected Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372
Translated by Graciela Zapata