Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2
March – April 2005

Editor’s Corner
Impossible Dreams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Peter Safar, 1924-2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Uwe Ebemeyer; Sam Tisherman; John Cook Lane; Sadao Morikawa; Carol J. Spizzirri; Burkart Holzner;
Ernesto A. Pretto, Jr.; Charles Brindis; Ed Ricci

Editorial
The Humanitarian Imperative in Disaster Management-
A Memorial Tribute to Peter Safar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
S.W.A. Gunn, MD, MS, FRCSC, Drhc

Original Research
Impact of 2003 Power Outages on Public Health and Emergency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
James C. Kile, DVM, MPH, DACVPM; Stephen Skowronski, MPA; Mark D. Miller, MPH, RS;
Stephan G. Reissman, PhD; Victor Balaban, PhD; Richard W. Klomp, MOB, MS;
Dori B. Reissman, MD,MPH; Hugh M. Mainzer, MS, DVM; Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD,MPH

Mass Medical Repatriation of Injured Civilians after Terrorist Attack in Mombassa, Kenya:
Medical Needs, Resources Used, and Lessons Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Maj. Meir Marmor, MD; Col. Liav Goldstein, MD, MHA; Brig. Gen. Yeheskel Levi, MD;
Col. Erez Onn, MD; LtC. Amir Blumenfeld, MD; Maj. Yona Kosashvili, MD; Maj. Gad Levy, MD;
LtC. Gil Hirschorn, MD; Maj. Eitan Heldenberg, MD; Maj. Jacob Or, MD; Maj. Eric Setton, MD;
Col. (res) Avishay Goldberg, PhD; Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

A Multidisciplinary Field Hospital as a Substitute for Medical Hospital Care
in the Aftermath of an Earthquake:The Experience of the Israeli Defense Forces
Field Hospital in Duzce,Turkey, 1999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA; Adi Leiba, MD; Pinar Beard, MD; David Mankuta, MD;
Dan Engelhart, MD; Yftah Beer, MD; Mauryzio Lynn; Yuval Weiss, MD; Giora Martonovits, MD,MPA;
Paul Benedek, MD, MHA; Avishay Goldberg, PhD,MPH,MA

Peer Evaluation of the Professional Behaviors of Emergency Medical Technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
William E. Brown, Jr., RN, MS, NREMT-P; Gregg Margolis, MS, NREMT-P; Roger Levine, PhD

Occupational Stress Among Japanese Emergency Medical Technicians: Hyogo Prefecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Naoki Okada, MD; Noboru Ishii, MD, PhD; Minori Nakata, MD; Shinichi Nakayama, MD, PhD

Comprehensive Review
Prehospital Management of Earthquake Casualties Buried Under Rubble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Itamar Ashkenazi, MD; Boris Isakovich, MD; Yoram Kluger, MD; Ricardo Alfici, MD;
Boris Kessel, MD; Ori S. Better,MD

Brief Report
Fire Safety Knowledge and Practices Among Residents of an Assisted Living Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
David Jaslow,MD, MPH; Jacob Ufberg, MD; Russell Yoon, MD; Clay McQueen;
Derek Zecher, PA-C, EMT; Greg Jakubowski, MS, EMT

Supplement
Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for the 14th World Congress
for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .s1