Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1
January–February 2007

Editor’s Corner
Growing Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Special Report
Maintaining Baseline, Corrective Surgical Care during Asymmetrical Warefare: A Case
Study of a Humanitarian Mission in the Safe Zone of a Neighboring Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
K.A. Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH; Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH; Eaman T. Al-Gobory, MD;
Christopher C. Anderson

State of Emergency Health in the Palestinian Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Raghu Venugopal, MD, MPH; P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH; Derek Ehrhardt, MPH, MSN;
Daksha Brahmbhatt, RN, MPH; Fadia Oweis

Health Lessons Learned from the Recent Earthquakes and Tsunami in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Dr. Claude de Ville de Goyet, MD

Prehospital Care of Orthopedic Injuries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Eitan Melamed, MD; Amir Blumenfeld, MD; Boaz Kalmovich, MD; Yona Kosashvili, MD; Guy Lin, MD;
The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps Consensus Group on Prehospital Care of Orthopedic Injuries

Original Research
Mortality Rates, Prevalence of Malnutrition, and Prevalence of Lost Pregnancies
among the Drought-Ravaged Population of Tete Province, Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Dr. Andre M.N. Renzaho, PhD, MPH

Comparative Study Illustrating the Differences of Educating the Public to Respond
to Chemical Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Sarah Hildebrand, Anthony Bleetman

Protecting Nursing Home Residents during Emergencies or Disasters:
An Exploratory Study from South Caroline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Sarah B. Laditka, PhD; James N. Laditka, DA, PhD; Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD;
Carol B. Cornman, BS, RN, PA; Courtney B. Davis, MHA; Jane V.E. Richter, DrPH, RN, CHES

"Stay Connected": Psychological Services for Retired Firefighters after
11 September 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Jennifer Alvarez, PhD; Craig Rosen, PhD; Kim Davis, MS, LCSW; Greg Smith, BS;
Malachy Corrigan, MSN, RN

Poison Control Center Surge Capacity during an Unusual Increase in Call Volume-
Results from a Natural Experiment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Zdravko P. Vassilev, MD, MPH; John Kashani, DO; Bruce Ruck, PharmD; Robert S. Hoffman, MD;
Steven M. Marcus, MD

Significance of a Level-2, "Selective, Secondary Evacuation" Hospital during
a Peripheral Town Terrorist Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Dagan Schwartz, MD; Moshe Pinkert, MD, MHA; Adi Leiba, MD; Meir Oren, MD; Jacob Haspel, MD;
Yehezkel Levi, MD; Avishay Goldberg, PhD; Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

Do Pediatric and Adult Disaster Victims Differ? A Descriptive Analysis of Clincal
Encounters from Four Natural Disaster DMAT Deployments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Katherine A. Gnauck, MD; Kevin E. Nufer, MD; Jonathon M. LaValley, BS; Cameron S. Crandall, MD;
Frances W. Craig, MD; Gina B. Wilson-Ramirez, MD

Brief Report
Patterns of Trauma Deaths in an Accident and Emergency Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Odigie Clement Osime, FMCS, FICS; Stephen Udi Idhedosa, FWACP, PhD;
Olugbenga Ojo Oludiran, FWACS, FICS; Pius Ehiawaguan Iribhogbe, FWACS, FICS;
Eddy Ehikhamenor, BDS, MSc; Sunday Oladepo Elusoji, FMCS, FICS

Special Report
KAMEDO Report No. 85: Collapse of Building during Wedding
Reception, Jerusalem, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Per-Plof Michel; Anders Sylvan; Helge Brändström; Eva Magnusson (ed)

KAMEDO Report No. 86: Explosion in the Artificial Fertilizer Factory
in France, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Louis Riddez; Siegfried Joussineau; Eva Magnusson (ed)

KAMEDO Report No. 87: Bomb Attack in Finnish Shopping Center, 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Edward Deverell; Per Örtenwall; Ola Almgren; Louis Riddez (ed)

KAMEDO Report No. 88: Floods in the Czech Republic and
Southeastern Germany, 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Ulla Näsman; Birgit Zetterberg-Randén; Helge Brändström (ed)