Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1
January – February 2005

Editor’s Corner
Growth and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Editorial
Demystifying Bioterrorism: Misinformation and Misperceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Eric Noji, MD,MPH; Tress Goodwin; Michael Hopmeier

Original Research
Predictors of Emotional Adjustment Following Traumatic Injury:
Personal, Social, and Material Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Matthew J. Cordova, PhD; Robyn Walser, PhD; Janet Neff, RN, MN; Josef I. Ruzek, PhD

The Incident Command System in Disasters: Evaluation Methods for a Hospital-based Exercise . . . . . . . .14
Tamara L. Thomas, MD; Edbert B. Hsu, MD,MPH; Hong K. Kim, MPH; Sara Colli, EMT;
Guillermo Arana, MD; Gary B. Green,MD, MPH

Public Hospital Preparations for SARS Outbreak: Experience of Alexandra Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Francis Chun Yue Lee, FRCSEd (A&E), FAMS;Wei Keong Wee, MBBS (Singapore), MBA;
Azman Johan, MRCP (UK), FCCP, FAMS

Current Status of International Emergency Medicine Fellowships in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Gregory H. Bledsoe,MD, MPH; Chayan C. Dey, MD,MPH; Christopher Kabrhel, MD;
Michael J. VanRooyen, MD,MPH

Successful Development and Implementation of a Tactical Emergency Medical Technician
Training Program for United States Federal Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Teriggi J. Ciccone, MD; Phillip D. Anderson, MD; Chon A.D. Gann, LPN, EMT-T, IDM;
J. Michael Riley, EMT-P; Michael Maxwell, EMT-P; Robert Hopkins, EMT-P; Gregory Ciottone,MD

Triage Decisions of United Kingdom Police Firearms Officers
Using a Multiple-Casualty Scenario Paper Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Tim Kilner, BN, RN, SRP, PGCE, DipIMC RCSEd;
F. John Hall, MB, ChB, DRCOG, DFFP, DipIMC RCSEd

Comprehensive Review
Effects of Prehospital Spinal Immobilization: A Systematic Review of
Randomized Trials on Healthy Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Irene Kwan, MSc; Frances Bunn, MSc

Special Report
Information Technology and Public Health Management of Disasters—
A Model for South Asian Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Dolly Mathew, MD

Continuing Education
Frederick C. Cuny Memorial Series

Disasters and Development: Part 2: Understanding and Exploiting
Disaster-Development Linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Rob S. Stephenson; Charles DuFrane

Disasters and Development: Part 3: Assessing Trade-offs in Investing in Vulnerability Reduction . . . . .66
Rob S. Stephenson; Charles DuFrane

Abstracts
Spanish Translations of Selected Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Translated by Graciela Zapata