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Médicine pré-hospitalière et médicine de catastrophe
Medicina prehospitalária y de catástrofes

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An Official Publication of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine


 
Volume 22, Issue 1

January - February 2007

   
Editor's Corner
Growing Science
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
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
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
Dr. Claude de Ville de Goyet, MD
   
Prehospital Care of Orthopedic Injuries
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
Dr. Andre M.N. Renzaho, PhD, MPH
 
Comparative Study Illustrating the Differences of Educating the Public to Respond to Chemical Terrorism
Sarah Hildebrand, Anthony Bleetman
 
Protecting Nursing Home Residents during Emergencies or Disasters: An Exploratory Study from South Carolina
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
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
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
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
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
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
Per-Plof Michel; Anders Sylvan; Helge Brändström; Eva Magnusson (ed)  
   
KAMEDO Report No. 86: Explosion in the Artificial Fertilizer Factory in France, 2001
Louis Riddez; Siegfried Joussineau; Eva Magnusson (ed)
 
   
KAMEDO Report No. 87: Bomb Attack in Finnish Shopping Center, 2002
Edward Deverell; Per Örtenwall; Ola Almgren; Louis Riddez (ed)  
   
KAMEDO Report No. 88: Floods in the Czech Republic and Southeastern Germany, 2002
Ulla Näsman; Birgit Zetterberg-Randén; Helge Brändström (ed)