Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 21, NUMBER 3
May– June 2006

Editor’s Corner
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: A Centennial Contemplation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Jeffrey L. Arnold, MD

Special Report
Military-Civic Action: Lessons Learned from a Brigade-Level Aid Project in the 2003War with Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
MAJ Richard Malish, MC, USA; LTC John. S. Scott, MC, USA; Burhan Omer Rasheed, MB ChB

International Medical Response to a Natural Disaster: Lessons Learned from the Bam Earthquake Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Hassan Abolghasemi, MD; Mohammad Hadi Radfar, MD; Masoud Khatami; Masoud Saghafi Nia; Ali Amid, MD;
Susan M. Briggs, MD, MPH

Comprehensive Review
In the Path of Disasters: Psychosocial Issues for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Carol A. Amaratunga, PhD; Tracey L. O'Sullivan, PhD

Original Research
In the Path of Disasters: Psychosocial Issues for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Virginia Murray, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPH, FFOM; Janet Clifford, MSc, PhD; Geert Seynaeve, MD;
Judith M. Fisher, MB, BS, FRCGP, FFAEM, FIMC(Ed)

Frequency of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Relief Force Workers after the Tsunami in Asia: Do Rescuers Become Victims? . . . . .168
Erol Armagan, MD; Zulfi Engindeniz, MD; Ali Onder Devay, MD; Bulent Eurdur, MD; Alis Ozcakir, MD

Role of Exercises and Drills in the Evaluation of Public Health in an Emergency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN; Joan Valas, MS, RN; Jacqueline Merrill, MPH, RN;
Stephen Morse, PhD

Knowledge of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome among Community
Physicians, Nurses, and Emergency Medical Responders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Alan Douglas Tice, MD; Mitsumasa Kishimoto, MD; Chuoung Hoang Dinh, DO;
Geoffery Tak-Kim Lam, BS; Michelle Marineau, APRN

Changes in Level of Consciousness and Association with Hyperglycemia as Tool for Predicting and Preventing Re-bleeding after Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Yoichi Kitsuta, MD; Noriyuki Suzuki, MD; Mitsugi Sugiyama, MD; Isao Yamamoto, MD

Disaster Management following the Chi-Chi Earthquake in Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Yu-Feng Chan, MD; Kumar Alagappan, MD; Arpita Gandhi, MD; Colleen Donovan; Malti Tewari, MD;
Sergey B. Zaets

Prehospital Care of Tsunami Victims in Thailand: Description and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
Dagan Schwartz, MD; Col. (res) Avishay Goldberg, PhD; Col. Issac Ashkenasi, MD, MPA, MSc;
Capt. Guy Nakash, MD; Maj. Rami Pelts, MA; Maj. Adi Leiba, MD; Brig. Gen. Yeheskel Levi, MD;
Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

Case Report
Medical Response of a Physician and Two Nurses to the Mass-Casualty Event Resulting in the Phi Phi Islands from the Tsunami . . . . . . . . . .213
Surasak Ammartyothin, MD; Col. Issac Ashkenasi, MD, MPA, MSc; Dagan Schwartz, MD;
Maj. Adi Leiba, MD; Capt. Guy Nakash, MD; Maj. Rami Peltz; Col. (res) Avishay Goldberg, PhD;
Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

Brief Report
Medical Support for Emergency Relief Workers after Typhoon Sudal in Yap, Micronesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Robert Partridge, MD, MPH; Kevin King, MD; Lawrence Proano, MD, DTMH

Forum
Letter to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
Per Ortenwall, MD, PhD