Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 4
July – August 2005

Editor’s Corner
Professionalization and Credentialing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Edinburgh Statements
Edinburgh Statement: Goals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Edinburgh Statement: Children in Disasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Edinburgh Statement: Landmines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Conference Declaration
Hyogo Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217
United Nations' World Conference on Disaster Reduction

Original Research
Evaluation of the Prehospital Management of Road Traffic Fatalities in Victoria, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
Francis T. McDermott, MD, FRACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS, FACS; Gregory J. Cooper; Philip L. Hogan;
Stephen M. Cordner, MA, MB, BS, BMedSc, DipCrim, DMJ, MRCPath, FRCPA; Ann B. Tremayne

Prehospital Management and Fluid Resuscitation in Hypotensive Trauma Patients
Admitted to Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Peep Talving, MD; Joakim Palstedt, MD; Louis Riddez, MD, PhD

Behavioral Health Risk Factors of United States Emergency Medical Technicians: The LEADS Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Ronald G. Pirrallo, MD, MHSA; Roger Levine, PhD; Philip D. Dickison, RN, NREMT-P

Vertical Evacuation Simulation of Critically Ill Patients in a Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
Jon R. Gildea, DO; Stuart Etengoff, DO, FACEP

Anxiety Level and Responses to Stress Caused by Air Raids among Patients with Ishchemic Heart Disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249
Dejana S. Vukovic, MD, PhD; Mirjana E. Krotin, MD, PhD; Momcilo M. Babic, MD, PhD; Branislav M. Zivanovic, MD

Special Report
Lessons Learned from Cross-border Medical Response to the Terrorist Bombings
in Tabba and Ras-el-Satan, Egypt, on 07 October 2004. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
Adi Leiba, MD; Amir Blumenfeld, MD; Ariel Hourvitz, MD, MHA; Gali Weiss, RN, MHA; Michal Peres, RN, MHA; Dani Laor, MD; Dagan Schwartz, MD; Jacob Arad, MD; Avishay Goldberg, PhD; Yeheskel Levi, MD; Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

KAMEDO Report No. 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258
Louis Riddez; Uno Dellgar

KAMEDO Report No. 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Louis Riddez; Uno Dellgar

Comprehensive Review
Does Advanced Life Support Provide Benefits to Patients?: A Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265
Derek Isenberg; Richard Bissell, PhD

Brief Report
The Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Program: Fourteen Years of Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
John W. Beasley, MD; Lee T. Dresang, MD; Diana B. Winslow, RN, BSN; James R. Damos, MD

Abstracts
Spanish Translations of Selected Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276
Translated by Graciela Zapata