Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
July–August 2007

Editor’s Corner
Moving Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Special Report
West Bank Barrier Decreases Access to Schools and Health Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Dima Qato,MPH; Shannon Doocy, PhD; Deborah Tsuchida; P. Gregg Greenough,MD,MPH;
Gilbert Burham,MD, PhD
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Samuel Stratton,MD,MPH

Disasters,Women’s Health, and Conservative Society:Working in Pakistan with the Turkish
Red Crescent following the South Asian Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
Andrew C. Miller, MD; Bonnie Arquilla,DO
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
Carol Amaratunga, PhD

Original Research
Suicide Bombing of the Mineralnye Vody Train: Case Study in Using Open-Source
Information for Open-Source Health Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276
Catherine Y. Lee,MPH;Timothy E. Davis,MD,MPH; Eric K.Noji,MD,MPH

Use of State Cancer Surveillance Data to Estimate the Cancer Burden in Disaster-Affected
Areas—Hurricane Katrina, 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
Djenaba A. Joseph,MD,MPH; Phyllis A.Wingo, PhD; Jessica B. King,MPH; Lori A. Pollack,MD,MPH;
Lisa C. Richardson, MD; Xiaocheng Wu, MD; Vivien Chen, PhD;Harland D. Austin, PhD; Deirdre Rogers, MS;
Janice Cook,MS
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr.,MD,MPH,DTM, FAAP, FACEP

Mission Failure: Emergency Medical Services Response to Chemical, Biological
Radiological,Nuclear, and Explosive Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Scot Phelps, JD,MPH,Paramedic, CEM/CBCP/MEP

Comfort Level of Emergency Medical Service Providers in Responding to Weapons of Mass
Destruction Events: Impact of Training and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Michael J. Reilly,MPH,NREMT-P; David Markenson,MD,EMT-P; Charles DiMaggio, PhD, PA-C

Prehospital Emergency Care and Medical Preparedness for the 2005 World Championship
Games in Athletics in Helsinki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
Tuomas Hiltunen, MD; Markku Kuisma,MD, PhD;Teuvo Määttä, MD; Arto Tennilä, MD;Tuomo Hari, MD;
Riitta Bäckman;Taneli Väyrynen,MD

Disaster Events and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Washington State Investigation. . . . . . . . . .313
Laura S. Gold, MSPH; Leslee B. Kane, BS;Nona Sotoodehnia,MD,MPH;Thomas Rea,MD,MPH

Staff Procedure Skills in Management Groups during Exercises in Disaster Medicine. . . . . . . . . .318
Anders Rüter,MD, PhD; Per Örtenwall,MD, PhD;Tore Vikström,MD, PhD
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
Bruria Adini, MA, MMedSc; Avishay Goldberg, MA,MPH, PhD;
Daniel Laor,MD, MHA;1 Robert Cohen, PhD; Yaron Bar-Dayan,MD,MHA

Effect of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Bystander Willingness to Perform
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)—Is Compression-Only Preferred to Standard CPR?. . . . .325
Kin-Kwan Lam,MRCP (UK), FRCS Ed, FHKAM; Fei-Lung Lau, FRCP Ed, FRCS Ed, FHKAM;
Wai-Kwong Chan, FRCP, FHKAM;Wing-Nam Wong, MBBS,FHKAM

Emergency Department Evaluations of Non-Percutaneous Blood or Body Fluid Exposures
during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330
Roland C. Merchant,MD,MPH; Jeremy B. Katzen, AB; Kenneth H. Mayer, MD; Bruce M. Becker,MD,MPH

Brief Report
Police Officer Response to the Injured Officer: A Survey-Based Analysis of Medical
Care Decisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer,MD, PhD; David W. Callaway, MD; Amado Alejandro Baez,MD, MS,MPH
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342
Ashley G. Anderson Jr.,MD, MS, FACS, CPE

Locking Plastic Tie—A Simple Technique for Securing a Chest Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344
Eitan Melamed, MD; Amir Blumenfeld, MD; Guy Lin,MD

Forum
Radiological Terrorism Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346
Prof. Jeffery Levett