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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 2

March - April 2007

   
Editor's Corner
Howdy Partner!
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
 
Original Research  
Misconceptions as a Barrier to Teaching about Disasters
David E. Alexander, PhD  
   
Editorial Review  
Editorial Review: Myths, the Ultimate Survivors in Disasters
Claude De Ville de Goyet  
   
Original Research  
Soft Tissue Infection after Missile Injuries to the Extremities-A Non-Randomized, Prospective Study in Gaza City
Hazem M. Hamouda, MD; Eivind Witso, PhD; Nedal K.E. Moghani, MD; Ahmed Shahwan, PhD; Oystein P. Nygaard, PhD
   
Editorial Review  
Editorial Comment: Soft Tissue Infection after Missile Injuries
to the Extremities-A Non-Randomized, Prospective Study in Gaza City
Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan,MD, MHA; Col (res) Prof. Avishay Goldberg, PhD  
 
Original Research  
Estimating Demographic Indicators in a Conflict-Affected Population in Eastern Sudan
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
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
Paul Arbon, PhD
   
Case Report  
Chlorine and its Impact on an Emergency Room
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
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
Joe Suyama, MD; Lucy Savitz, PhD, MBA; Helen Chang, MBA; Michael Allswede, DO  
   
Letter to the Editor  
"But for the Hurricane": Measuring Natural Disaster Mortality over the Long Term
Lori Uscher-Pines, MSc, PhD Candidate  
   
Editorial Review  
Editorial Comments: "But for the Hurricane": Measuring Natural Disaster Mortality over the Long Term
Claude De Ville de Goyet  
   
Supplement  
Table of Contents of Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers
for the 15th World Congress on Disasater and Emergency Medicine
   
Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for the 15th World Congress on Disasater and Emergency Medicine
Amsterdam, Netherlands  
   
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