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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 3
May - June 2010
   
Table of Contents  
   
Editor's Corner
Future Humanitarian Crises: Challenges for Practice, Policy, and Public Health
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM
 
Special Report
Haiti Disaster Tourism—A Medical Shame
Daniël J. Van Hoving, MMED; Lee A. Wallis, MD; Fathima Docrat, MBBCh; Shaheem De Vries, M Phil  
   
Legal Issues of Humanitarian Assistance after the 2007 Earthquake in Pisco, Peru
Celso Bambarén, MD, PhD  
   
Editorial Comments
Michael H. Hoffmann, JD  
   
Regulating the Helping Hand: Improving Legal Preparedness for Cross-Border
Disaster Medicine
David Fisher, JD, LLM  
   
A Graduate Curriculum in Emergency Public Health
Steven J. Rottman, MD; Kimberly I. Shoaf, DrPH; Samuel J. Stratton, MD, MPH  
   
Editorial Comments
Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN  
   
Single-Breath-Count Test: An Important Adjunct in the Triaging of Patients in a Mass-Casualty Incident Due to Botulism
Paul P. Rega, MD; Christopher E. Bork, PhD; Kelly Burkholder-Allen, MSEd; Michael S. Bisesi, PhD; Jeffrey P. Gold, MD  
   
Original Research  
Care of Children at a Large Outdoor Music Festival in the United Kingdom
Dr. Carl P. McQueen, MBChB (Hons)

 
-PLUS Prehospital Mass-Casualty Triage: A Strategy for Addressing Unusual Injury Mechanisms
Daniel J. Neal, PhD; Joseph A. Barbera, MD; John R. Harrald, PhD  
   
Editorial Comments
Col. (reserve) Prof. Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA
   
Triage Performance of First-Year Medical Students Using a Multiple-Casualty Scenario, Paper Exercise
Robert F. Sapp, MD, MPH; Jane H. Brice, MD, MPH; J. Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FACEP; Paul Hinchey, MD, MBA, EMT-P  
   
Estimating Blood Transfusion Requirements in Preparation for a Major Earthquake: The Tehran, Iran Study
Morteza Tabatabaie, MD, MPH; Ali Ardalan, MD, PhD; Hassan Abolghasemi, MD; Kourosh Holakouie Naieni, PhD; Farshad Pourmalek, MD, PhD; Batool Ahmadi, PhD; Mostafa Shokouhi, MSc
   
Non-Invasive Carboxyhemoglobin Monitoring: Screening Emergeny Medical Services Patients for Carbon Monoxide Exposure
Douglas Nilson, MD; Robert Partridge, MD, MPH; Selim Suner, MD, MS; Gregory Jay, MD, PhD  
   
Frequent Use of Emergency Medical Services by the Elderly: A Case-Control Study Using Paramedic Records
Niels Tangherlini, EMT-P, BA; Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH; Mark A. Covec, RN, ACNP; John F. Brown, MD, MPA  
   
Comprehensive Review  
Health Impacts of Floods
Weiwei Du, BEc, BA; Gerard Joseph FitzGerald, MD, FACEM; Michele Clark, PhD; Xiang-Yu Hou, PhD  
   
Brief Report  
Lessons Learned at World Youth Day: Collecting Data and Using Postcards at Mass Gatherings
Dr. Alison Hutton, RN, BN, PhD, MRCNA; Allison Roderick; Rebecca Munt  
   
Pre-Traumatic Vaccination Intervention: Can Dissociative Symptoms be Reduced?
Nir Essar, MD; Yuval Palgi, MA; Ronen Saar, MA; Menachem Ben-Ezra, PhD  
   
Letter to the Editor  
Epidemiology of Disasters in the Republic of Macedonia and Balkan Region: Improving Public Health Preparedness
Elisaveta Stikova; Ron LaPorte; Faina Linkov