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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 25, Issue 1
January - February 2010
   
Table of Contents  
   
Editor's Corner
“What Went Well?” “What Could Have Been Done Better?”
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
 
Special Report
A National Framework for Disaster Health Education in Australia
Gerard J. FitzGerald, MD; Peter Aitken, FACEM; Paul Arbon, PhD; Frank Archer, MPH; David Cooper, FACEM;  
Peter Leggat, MD; Colin Myers, FACEM; Andrew Robertson, MHSM; Michael Tarrant, MA; Elinor R. Davis, MPH  
   
Original Research  
Attitudes to Living and Working in Pandemic Conditions among Emergency Prehospital Medical
Care Personnel
Kerrianne Watt, PhD; Vivienne C. Tippett, MPH; Steven G. Raven, B.Psych (Hons);
Konrad D. Jamrozik, DPhil, FAFPHM; Michael Coory, PhD, MBBS; Frank Archer, MPH, Med, MBBS;
 
Heath A. Kelly, MPH, MBBS  
   
Anticipated Behaviors of Emergency Prehospital Medical Care Providers during
an Influenza Pandemic
Vivienne C. Tippett, MPH; Kerrianne Watt, PhD; Steven G. Raven, B.Psych (Hons); Heath A. Kelly, MPH, MBBS;
Michael Coory, PhD, MBBS; Frank Archer, MPH, Med, MBBS; Konrad D. Jamrozik, DPhil, FAFPHM  
   
Editorial Comments
Samuel J. Stratton, MD, MPH  
   
Post-Conflict Transition and Sustainability in Kosovo: Establishing Primary Healthcare-Based Antenatal Care
Fay F. Homan, MD; Cristina S. Hammond, MPH; Ellen F. Thompson, MS, RN; Donald O. Kollisch, MD;
James C. Strickler, MD  
   
Editorial Comments
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM  
   
Changes in Post-Traumatic Symptom Pattern during and after Exposure to Extreme War Stress:
An Uncontrolled, Preliminary Study Supporting the Dose-Response Model  
Menachem Ben-Ezra, PhD; Yuval Palgi, PhD; Amit Shrira, MA; Dina Sternberg, BSc; Nir Essar, MD  
   
Interruption of Medication among Outpatients with Chronic Conditions after a Flood
Jun Tomio, MD, MSc, EMDM; Hajime Sato, MD, MPH, DPH, PhD; Hiroko Mizumura, MHE, PhD  
   
Inter-Agency Communication and Operations Capabilities during a Hospital Functional Exercise:
Reliability and Validity or a Measurement Tool  
Elena Savoia, MD, MPH; Paul D. Biddinger, MD; Jon Burstein, MD; Michael A. Stoto, PhD  
   
Prospective Study of Validity of Neurologic Signs in Predicting Positive Cranial Computed
Tomography following Minor Head Trauma  
Yassir S. Abdul Rahman, MD; Ahmed Sami S. Al Den, MD; Kimball I. Maull, MD, FACS  
   
Differences in the Sources of Information and Acquaintance with Instructions between Dimona
and the General Population after a Suicide Bomber Event  
Aaron Richman, MBA; Cap. Galit Shohat, MD; Col. Yechiel Soffer, MA; Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA  
   
Changing Pattern of Pediatric Maxillofacial Injuries at the Accident and Emergency Department
of the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan—A Four-Year Experience  
Victoria N. Okoje, BDS, FWACS; Temitope O. Alonge, MD, FRCS; Olufemi A. Oluteye, BDS; Obafunke O. Denloye, BDS, FWACS
 
   
Editorial Comments
Ziva Elkabetz-Schwartz, MD; Ada Bone, RN; Itzik Kochav, BSc, EMT-A; Nili Meisel, RN; Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA  
   
Comprehensive Review  
Vulnerable Populations: Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study
Richard M. Zoraster, MD, MPH  
   
Case Study  
“Operation Helping Hands”: Massachusetts’ Health and Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina
Suzanne Condon, MD; Elena Savoia, MD, MPH; Rebecca Orfaly Cadigan, SM; Marya Getchell, SM;  
Jonathan L. Burstein, MD; Bruce Auerbach, MD; Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH  
   
Brief Report  
Evaluation of the Effect of Prehospital Application of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
Therapy in Acute Respiratoy Distress  
G. Scott Warner, MD, FACP, FCCP  
   
Emergency Airway Placement by Emergency Medical Services Providers: Comparison between
the King LT Supralaryngeal Airway and Endotracheal Intubation  
J. Bracken Burns, Jr., DO; Richard Branson, MS, RRT; Stephen L. Barnes, MD; Betty J. Tsuei, MD  
   
Letter to the Editor
Dr. Masoud Saghafinia; Dr. Mohammad Hosein K. Hotamedi