Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
March–April 2007

Editor’s Corner
Howdy Partner! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Original Research
Misconceptions as a Barrier to Teaching about Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
David E. Alexander, PhD
Editorial Review: Myths, the Ultimate Survivors in Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Claude De Ville de Goyet

Soft Tissue Infection after Missile Injuries to the Extremities-A Non-Randomized,
Prospective Study in Gaza City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Hazem M. Hamouda, MD; Eivind Witso, PhD; Nedal K.E. Moghani, MD; Ahmed Shahwan, PhD;
Oystein P. Nygaard, PhD
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan,MD, MHA; Col (res) Prof. Avishay Goldberg, PhD

Estimating Demographic Indicators in a Conflict-Affected Population in Eastern Sudan . . . . . .112
Shannon Doocy, PhD; Gilbert Burnham, MD, PhD; Courtland Robinson, PhD

Special Report
International Guidlines and Standards for Education and Training to Reduce the Consequences
of Events that may Threaten the Health Status of a Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Frank Archer, OAM, MBBS, MEd, MPH, FAFPHM;
Geert Seynaeve, BSc, MD, PostGradDipPublic Health, PostGradCertOH&S

Comprehensive Review
Mass-Gathering Medicine: A Review of the Evidence and Future Directions
for Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Paul Arbon, PhD

Case Report
Chlorine and its Impact on an Emergency Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Adeline Ngo, MBBS, MRCS(Edin), MMed(A&E); R. Ponampalam, MBBS, FRCS (A&E)(Edin);
Mark Leong; Lim Swee Han, MBS, FRCS (A&E)(Edin)

Presumed Mass Illness following a Pyridine Fumes Incident: Environmental Contamination
versus Mass Hysteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Marcel Van der Auwera; Rudi Beckers; Katleen Devue, MD; Petra Claes, MD; Axelle De Cock, MD;
Nico Deleu, MD

Brief Report
Financial Implications of Hospital Response to Bioterrorism based on
Diagnosis-Related Group Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Joe Suyama, MD; Lucy Savitz, PhD, MBA; Helen Chang, MBA; Michael Allswede, DO

Forum
"But for the Hurricane": Measuring Natural Disaster Mortality
over the Long Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Lori Uscher-Pines, MSc, PhD Candidate
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Claude De Ville de Goyet

Supplement
Supplement Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .si

Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for the 15th World Congress
for Disasater and Emergency Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. . . . . . . .s1

Supplement Index. . . . . . . .s175