Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Table of Contents
November–December 2007

Editor’s Corner
Data, Information, and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD

Special Report
The First 24 Hours of the World Trade Center Attacks of 2001—The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Emergency Phase Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Miguel A. Cruz, MPH; Ronald Burger, BS; Mark Keim, MD

Original Research
Population Psychiatric Medication Prescription Rates following a Terrorist Attack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .479
Charles DiMaggio, PhD; Sandro Galea, MD; Paula A. Madrid, PsyD

Roadmap for the Protection of Disaster Research Participants: Findings from the World
Trade Center Evacuation Study. . . . . . . . .486
Kristine A. Qureshi, DNSc; Robyn R.M. Gershon, MHS, DrPH; Elizabeth Smailes, PhD; Victoria H. Raveis, PhD
Bridgette Murphy, MPH; Frederick Matzner, MD; Alan R. Fleischman, MD

Qualitative Study of Homeowners’ Emergency Preparedness: Experiences, Perceptions,
and Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .494
Shane T. Diekman, PhD, MPH; Sean P. Kearney, MD, MPH; Mary E. O’Neil, MPH; Karin A. Mack, PhD

Estimation of External Blood Loss by Paramedics: Is There Any Point? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .502
Brett Williams, MHlthSc, PhD (Candidate); Mal Boyle, MClinEpi, PhD (Candidate)

Seen but not Heard: Injuries and Deaths from Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance
in Chechnya, 1994–2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .507
Oleg O. Bilukha, MD, PhD; Muireann Brennan, MD, MPH; Mark Anderson, MD, MPH; Zaur Tsitsaev, BS;
Eliza Murtazaeva, BS; Ramzan Ibragimov, BS

The 2003 Bam Earthquake:Overview of First Aid and Transport of Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513
Sedighe Mirhashemi, MD; Ali Ghanjal, MS; Hassan Ali Mohebbi, MD; Yashar Moharamzad, MD

Treatment Management in Disaster: A Review of the Bam Earthquake Experience. . . . . . . . . .517
Masoud Saghafinia, MD; Hassan Araghizade, MD; Nahid Nafissi, MD; Reza Asadollahi, MD

Leadership as a Component of Crowd Control in a Hospital Dealing with a Mass-Casualty
Incident: Lessons Learned from the October 2000 Riots in Nazareth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .522
Moshe Pinkert, MD, MHA; Yuval Bloch, MD, MHA; Dagan Schwartz, MD; Isaac Ashkenazi, MD, MSc, MPA;
Bishara Nakhleh, MD; Barhoum Massad, MD; Michal Peres, RN, MHA; Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .527
Ahmed Ammar, MBCHB, DMSc, FICS, FACS

Comprehensive Review
Hospital Strategic Preparedness Planning: The New Imperative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .529
Peter M. Ginter, PhD; W. Jack Duncan, PhD; Maziar Abdolrasulnia, PhD

Principles of Disaster Planning for the Pediatric Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .537
Gwenn M. Allen, Master’s Candidate; Steven J. Parrillo, DO; Jean Will, ED D, RN, MSN;
Johnathon A. Mohr, MBA

Brief Report
Mental Health Problems following the 2005 Earthquake in Kashmir: Findings of
Community-Run Clinics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541
Rakesh Kumar Chadda, MD, MAMS, MRCPsych; Anil Malhotra, DMSP, PhD; Nanaji Kaw, MD, DPM;
Jaspreet Singh, MD; Hem Sethi, M Sc
Editorial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .547
Carol Amaratunga, PhD

Forum
Radiological Terrorism Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .547
Professor Keith Porter; Dr. Caroline Lee

Volume 22 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .548

Supplement
Emergency Preparedness for the Health Sector and Communities—Challenges
and the Way Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .s187
WHO Expert Consultation, Geneva, 15–17 February 2006