Médicine pré-hospitalière et médicine de catastrophe
Medicina prehospitalária y de catástrofes
An Official Publication of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
| Volume 25, Issue 6 | |
| November - December 2010 | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Editor's Corner | |
| Another Way | |
| Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD | |
| Special Report | |
| Surgery Under Extreme Conditions in the Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake: The Importance of Regional Anesthesia | |
| Andres Missair, MD; Ralf Gebhard, MD; Edgar Pierre, MD; Lebron Cooper, MD; David Lubarsky, MD; Jeffrey Frohock, MD; Ernesto A. Pretto, Jr., MD, MPH | |
| Editorial Comments | |
| Claude de Ville de Goyet, MD | |
| Original Research | |
| Changes in Mortality Rates and Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur, Sudan 2003–2007 | |
| Richard Garfield, RN, DrPH; Jonny Polonsky, MSc | |
| Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response following Hurricane Ike—Texas, 25–30 September 2008 | |
| David F. Zane, MS; Tesfaye M. Bayleyegn, MD; Tracy L. Haywood, BS; Dana Wiltz-Beckham, DVM; Harlan “Mark” Guidry, MD, MPH; Carlos Sanchez, MD; Amy F. Wolkin, MSPH | |
| Ambulance Need at Mass Gatherings | |
| Elissa Meites, MD, MPH; John F. Brown, MD, MPA | |
| Introduction of a Prehospital Critical Incident Monitoring System—Final Results | |
| Dr. Julian Stella, MBBS, FACEM; Dr. Bruce Bartley, MBBS, FRCSE, FACEM; Paul Jennings, BN, MClinEpi, MACAP | |
| Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest—Review of Demographics in South Australia to Inform Decisions about the Provision of Automatic External Defibrilators within the Community | |
| Associate Professor Kathryn Zeitz; Dr. Hugh Grantham; Mr. Robert Elliot; Associate Professor Chris Zeitz | |
| Ability of First-Year Paramedic Students to Identify ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Injury on 12-Lead Electrocardiogram: A Pilot Study | |
| Joel T. Levis, MD, PhD; Mary Koskovich, BA, EMT-P | |
| Trained Lay First Responders Reduce Trauma Mortality: A Controlled Study of Rural Care in Iraq | |
| Mudhafar Karim Murad, MD; Hans Husum, MD, PhD |
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| Should Trauma Patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale Score of 3 Be Intubated Prior to Hospital Arrival? | |
| Charlene B. Irvin, MD; Susan Szpunar, PhD; Lauren A. Cindrich; Justin Walters, MD; Robert Sills, DO | |
| Development of a Mass-Gathering Medical Resource Matrix for a Developing World Scenario | |
| Dr. Wayne P. Smith, BSc, MBChB, EMDM; Dr. Vernon Wessels, MBchB; Diane Naicker; Dr. Elizabeth Leuenberger, MBChB; Peter Fuhri; Prof. Lee A. Wallis, MBChB, MD, FCEM, FCEM(SA) | |
| Editorial Comments | |
| Professor Paul Arbon, PhD, RN | |
| Comprehensive Review | |
| Burn Disasters—An Audit of the Literature | |
| Carsten L. Broeze, MBBS, BMedSci (Hons); Sian Falder, MBBS, BSc, FRCS (PLAST); Suzanne Rea, MRCSI, FRCSI (PLAST); Fiona Wood, FRACS, FRCS, AM |
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| Editorial Comments | |
| Lee D. Faucher, MD | |
| Editorial Comments | |
| Michael J. Schurr, MD | |
| Brief Report | |
| QuikClot Combat Gauze Use for Hemorrhage Control in Military Trauma: January 2009 Israel Defense Force Experience in the Gaza Strip—A Preliminary Report of 14 Cases |
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| Yuval Ran, MD; Eran Hadad, MD; Saleh Daher, MD; Ori Ganor, MD; Jonathan Kohn; Yana Yegorov; Carmi Bartal, MD; Nachman Ash, MD; Gil Hirschhorn, MD | |
| Equipment Evaluation | |
| Comparison of Techniques for Securing the Endotracheal Tube while Wearing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, of Nuclear Protection | |
| Nick Castle, MSc; Robert Owen, MSc; Simon Clark; Mark Hann; David Reeces; Ian Gurney | |
| Theoretical Discussoon | |
| Prehospital Care Algorithm for Blast Injuries due to Bombing Incidents | |
| G. Bobby Kapur, MD, MPH; M. Tyson Pillow, MD, EMT-LP; Ira Nemeth, MD | |
| Editorial Comments | |
| Kimball I. Maull, MD, FACS | |
| Letters to the Editor | |
| From Animesh Prakash | |
| From Anil Kumar | |
| From Aahna Srikanth | |
| From Masoud Saghafinia; Mohammad Hosein Kalantar Motamedi |