Prehospital Disaster Medicine

PREHOSPITAL and DISASTER MEDICINE MedecinePre-Hospitaliere et Medecine de Catastrophe Medicina Prehospitalaria y de Catastrof.es

Volume 24, Supplement 1 March-April 2009

Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers 16th World Congress for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Victoria, British Columbia Canada 12-15 May 2009

The Official Journal of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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Victoria, British Columbia Canada 12-15 May 2009 Table of Contents

Opening Keynotes

Keynote 1—Something's Gonna Getcha? Or Maybe Not: Preparing for Public Health Challenges and Emergencies in the 21st Century si Dr. David Butler Jones

Keynote 2—Global Climate Change: A Public Health Disaster in Slow Motion? si Johnathan Patz, MD, MPH Poster Presentations—Case Reports and Medical Issues

(Al) Acute Adrenal Insufficiency after Single Dose Etomidate si Lisgelia Santana (A2) Use of Glyceryl Trinitrate Patches in the Treatment of Accidental Digital Injection of Epinephrine from Autoinjector si Omar Nafousi; Sreenath Reddy; Jangam Nagaraj

(A3) Locally Brewed Alcohol—A Recipe for Disaster! An Alcohol Explosion in Benin City, Nigeria s2 Edeaghe Ehikhamenor; David Oseyemwen

(A4) Case Study: Fiberoptic Bronchoscopic Sealing of a Bronchopleural Fistula s2 Ashwin N. Udupa; Chhavi Papneja

(AS) Unilateral Pulmonary Edema in a 55-Year-Old Man s2 Eleni Palli; Eftyhia Tamviskou; Grigorios Garoufalis; Viktoria Karypidou; Eleftherios Kostopoulos; Demetrios Pyrros

(A6) Accident and Emergency Rescue Diary of a Save Accident Victims of Nigeria Student Chapter s3 Anthony 0. Osaguona; Momodu Kassim; Edeaghe Ehikamenor

(A7) Assessment of Duration of Emergency Department Stay, Admission, and Transfer-Out Rates in Patients Presenting with Orthopedic Injuries in a Level-One Trauma Center s3 John Bera; Sanjeev Bhoi

(A8) Case Report: Traumatic Extensive Degloving Avulsion Injury of Total Scalp Soft Tissue Loss s3 Chou-Chen Chen (A9) Case Report: Pneumomediastinum Due to Sympathomimetric Substace Abuse s4 Nader Tavakoli; Maryam Mehrazi; AH Shahrami

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Keynotes

Keynote 3—Consequences of Economic Crises s4 Dr. Andy Robertson

Keynote 4—Myths and Realities of Disaster Epidemiology s5

Dr. Debarati Guha-Sapir Oral Presentations—Public Health

Socioeconomic Disaster Risk in Affluent Society s5 Richard M. Zoraster An Outbreak of Equine Influenza in Eastern Australia: Lessons for Pandemic Planners s5 Trevor Barnes Health Threats and the European Commission sS Per E. Kulling; Frank Van Loock

Preparing Prisons for Health Emergencies s6 Kristine M. Gebbie; Lester N. Wright

Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Disaster Relief s6 David Bradt

Public Health Services—Coping with the Challenges of Epidemics in the 21st Century s6 Itamar Grotto; Avishay Goldberg

Assessing Shelter Operations Using a Standard Form: Results of theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health Shelter Assessment Workgroup s7 Miguel Cruz; Mark Miller; Nisha Kapil; Martin Kalis

Medication Preparedness and Awareness for Chronic Disease Sufferers during Disasters s7 Lidia Mayner; PaulArbon

Preparing Personnel for Deployment s7 Caroline Whittaker

Paramedics and Public Health Emergencies: Is There a "Duty to Respond:? s8 Erin C. Smith; Frederick M. Burkle,Jr., Peter Jurkovsky; Carly Woodd; Simon Jensen

Disaster Plans for Hospitals: A Public Health Approach to Help Implementation s8 Mathieu Potin; Anthony Staines; Georges Vittoz; Bertrand Yersin Poster Presentations—Public Health (Q85) Comparison of the Effects of a Nutritional Program on Quality of Life of Hemodialysis Patients s8 Nader Aghakhani; Narges Rahbar; Mohammad Alizadeh; Aram Feizi; Bahman AH Nezad (Q86) Vulnerable Populations: A Social Ecological Approach to Nursing Research of Chronic Illness in Disaster Mangement s9 Joan Valas (Q87) Investigation of the Frequency of Different Emergency Calls in Northern and Southern Geographical Areas of Tehran s9 Mohamad Kalantari Meibodi; Afshin Amini

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(Q88) Mortality Rates for Pedestrian-Motor Vehicle Collisions in Mexico City, 2004-2006 s9 Oscar Santiago-Espinosa; Martha Hijar-Medina

(Q89) Missed Opportunities: HIV Testing in a Bronx, New York Emergency Department s9 Andrew Park

(Q90) Using Routine Emergency Care Data for Public Health Surveillance and Health Threat Preparedness—The European Project SIDARTHA slO Thomas Krajft; Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo; Matthias Fischer; Alexander Kraemer; Freddy Lippert; Gernot Vergeiner; Alexandra Ziemann; Helmut Brand; Jerry Overton

(Q?l) Comparative Evaluation of Road Traffic Crashes in Ghana and Nigeria (1994-1998) slO Eseoghene A. Okparavero; Aghogho Okparavero; Ernest Ekong

(Q92) Gender Issues, Socio-Cultural, and Institutional Factors that Influence Access and Utilization of Sexual Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services sll S.M. Mbidde; NakayingA. Semakula; Ssenkungu T. Ssenkungu; Lwasa E. Lwasa; Luzinda R. Luzinda; Nankinga M. Masembe

(Q93) Socio-Economic/Political Instability and Access to Basic Healthcare Services for Women and Children in Ikirun, Osun State sll Ohien D. Wariosa Oral Presentations—Safe Medical Facilities

Report on "Good Practices" for Hospital Disaster Safety and Resilience in Japan sll Junko Ikeuchi; Eriko Takei; Takashi Ukai Safe Hospital Program in Sweden sl2 Jonas Hoist; Uno Dellgar

The Robust Hospital sl2 Uno Dellgar; Jonas Hoist

Best Practices of Hospital Security Planning for Emergency Preparedness sl2 Erin Downey

Risk Assessment for Healthcare Facilities: A Practical Tool sl3 Bonnie Henry; Brian Schwartz

Earthquake Preparedness in Tehran sl3 Fatemeh Noughani Poster Presentations—Safe Medical Facilities (5104) Longitudional Expandable Shelter for Health Emergency Response during Disasters .sl3 Roberto Miniati; Fabrizio Dori; Ernesto Iadanza; Marco Lo Sardo; Sergio Boncinelli (5105) Water Supply Damage to Hospitals during Two Earthquakes in Japan, 2007 sl4 Ericko Takei; Junko Ikeuchi; Norihiko Yamada; Takashi Ukai

(5106) Evacuation Exercise of an Intensive Care Unit sl4 Jan Grundgeiger; Matthias Hansen; Thomas Thiele; Michael Forray; Tobias Kees; Matthias Offterdinger; Klein Gerhardt; Stefan Gromer

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Oral Presentations—Civil-Military Collaboration

Potential Roles of Military-Specific Response to Natural Disasters—Analysis of the Rapid Deployment of a Mobile Surgical Team to the 2007 Peruvian Earthquake sl4 Richard G. Mulish; David E. Oliver; Robert M. Rush; Esmeraldo Zarzabal; Michael J. Sigmon; Frederick M. Burkle

First Use of the Canada-US Civil Assistance Plan—Hurricane Gustav, August 2008: A Bi-National Success Story slS James Terbush

The Army Health System: One Face of the Same Coin sl5 Karina Ugo; Francisco J. Gambino

How to Build a Mobile Field Hospital in Disasters: An Italian Model slS Alessandra Rossodivita; Pantaleo L. Losapio

Using Military Resources to Sustain Government Hospitals during Labor Unrest: The South African Experience sl6 Theo Ligthelm

Frozen -80° Red Cells, Plasma, and Platelets in Combat Casualty Care sl6

Femke Noorman; Charles C. Lelkens Poster Presentations—Civil-Military Collaboration

(LI) Developing an Integrated Civilian-Military Model for Healthcare Emergency Response Planning sl6 James L. Paturas; Stewart Smith; Elaine Forte; Christopher Cannon (L2) Response and Assistance of the Greek Health Sector to a Mass-Casualty Incidentin Albania sl7 Maria Tseroni; Kaliopi Salteri; Stamatis Papadakis; Paraskevi Xekouki; Nikolaos Papageorgiou; Georgios Karamboutakis; Panagiotis Efstathiou (L3) Emergency Medicine in a Teritary Care Medical Center Under Missile Attack sl7

Dagan Schwartz; Moshe Michelson; Gila Hyams; Limor Aharonson-Daniel Oral Presentations—Disaster Health Management

Computerized Patient Information sl7 Odeda Benin-Goren; Ayala Gonen; Ayala Lior; Pinchas Halpern; Ran Tzafrir; Ronen Libster Characteristics of Disaster Management in China—A Preliminary Evaluation of Flood Management in Jinan, 2007 sl8 Weiwei Du; Xiang-Yu Hou; Aiqiang Xu; Jie Lei; Michele Clark; Gerard Fitz Gerald

Development of Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Nepal sl8 Ramesh K. Maharjan

Disaster Medicine in Tschinvali sl8 Gennady V. Kipor

How Did the Hyogo Prefecture Renovate its Disaster Medical Services System based on the Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake? sl9 Shuichi Kozawa; Shinichi Nakayama; Masao Tomioka; Takashi Ukai

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Current Prehospital Trauma Care in Kampala, Uganda and a Pilot Training Program for Laypersons as First Responders sl9 Jacqueline Mabweijano; Sudha Jayaraman; Cephas Mijumbi; Michael Lipnick; Nolan Caldwell; Justin Miyamoto; Rochelle Dicker; Renee Hsia; Doruk Ozediz

Effects of Violence in a Community during a Disaster—Recommendations to Strengthen Forensic Services s20 Joyce Williams; David Williams

Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations during Diasters s20 Deborah J. PerseII

Management of the Dead during Disasters—Role of First Responders in South Asia s20 Clifford P. Perera; Christopher Briggs; Dusan Vujasanin

Disaster Needs Assessment Teams: Recent Experiences in Australia s21 Andrew Robertson; Tarun Weeramanthri

Creating an Advanced Medical Assistance Station for the Emergency Medical Assistance Service in French Guiana s21 Gerald Egmann; Jean Laversanne; Thierry le Guen; Michel Durand; Antonio Guell

Replication of a Study on Disaster Myths among Students in a Graduate Course on an Introduction to Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Health s21 Frank Archer

Nursing and Midwifery Disaster Needs and Core Curricular Domains in the Western Pacific Ocean s22 Kristine Qureshi; Kathleen Fritsch

Disasters—The Forgotten Provider during Mass-Casualty Incidents s22 David A. Williams; Joyce P. Williams

Physical Health and Psychosocial Issues for Older Persons in Disasters and Emergencies s22

Gloria M. Gutman; Maggie Gibson; Sandi Hirst; Rory Fisher; Robert Rous Poster Presentations—Disaster Health Management

(BIO) A New Model for Medical Records for International Disaster Relief Operations s23 Koichi Shinichi; Toyoka Shinichi; Kazue Kaivahara; Kiyoshi Yoshimizu (Bll) Disaster Health-Related Challenges: Grounded Theory Study in the Iranian Context s23 Hamid Reza Khankeh; Reza Mohammadi; Davoud Khorasani

(B12) Electronic Patient Reporting during an International Patient Evacuation from Malaga, Spain to Helsinki, Finland s23 Markku Kuisma; Timo Vesterback; Tuomas Hiltunen; Arto Tennila; Jouni Pousi; Jarkko Parjarinen

(B13) Rapid Health and Needs Assessments after Disasters s23 Helena A. Korteiueg; I. van Bokhoven; L. Grievink; C.J. Yzermans

(B14) Coping with Sudden-Onset Emergencies in Emergency Departments s24 HuXia

(B15) Hurricane Ike: Lessons Learned from a Surgical Relief Mission s24 Dan L. Deckelbaum; Ara J. Feinstein; Edgar Pierre; Rufus Ewing; Kendra F Gardiner-Hall; Edgar Panga; Abbe Bendell; Mark G. McKenney; Mauricio Lynn

(B16) Systematic Review by Meta-Narrative Mapping of Acute Kidney Injury in Disasters s24 Ayan Sen; Ashwani Gupta; Sandra I. Castellblanco Betancourt

(B17) How Many Resources or Telephone Lines are Needed during a Mass-Casualty Incident? s25 Chun Y. Chang

(B18) Development of Command and Control System and its Education of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams in Japan s25 Kazuma Morino; Hiroshi Henmi; Masato Honma; Yasuhiro Ototno; Yuichi Koido; Hisayoshi Kondo

(B19) Assessment of Hospital Disaster and Non-Operational Defense Maneuver Performed in Imam Hossain Hospital s25 Mehrdad Esmailian; Shahram Alamdari; Hamid Kariman

(B20) Rescue Missons and Operation of Chinese International Search-and-Rescue Teams following Several Foreign Earthquakes s26 Haojun Fan Oral Presentations—Research Literature Review of Disaster Health Research in Japan s26 Mayumi Kako; Satoko Mitani

Multiple Injury Profiles—Applications for War Injuries s26 Limor Aharonson-Daniel; Dagan Schwartz

Maintaining a Flexible Framework: Conducting a Large, Mixed Methodology Study of Refugees' Ideas on Family Planning at Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Kibondo, Tanzania s27 Diane Morof

Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for Persons with Disabilities s27 David S. Markenson; Michael Reilly

Benchmarking for Hospital Evacuation: A Standardized Data Collection Tool s27 Knox Andress; Erin Downey; Carl Schultz

Video Technologies in Emergency Health Research in Assessing Quality of Care: A Study of Trauma Resusciation Milestones s28 Ayan Sen; Peter Hu; Colin Mackenzie; Yan Xiao; Richard Dutton

Emergency Management in the United States: Fifty Years of Policies, Politics, and Disasters s28 Luis M. Pinet Peralta

Compassion Fatigue: The Consequences of Caring s28 Lorraine Osborne

Database as an Evidence Base—Lessons Learned from Terrorism-Related Injuries among Israeli Citizens s29 Kobi Peleg; Israel Trauma Group

Comparison of Disaster Response Approaches in Canada and the United States: Ontario's EMAT vs. Florida 1DMAT s29 David G. McCann

Hospital Emergency Department Referral Patterns in a Disaster s29 Michael J. Reilly; David S. Markenson

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Antioxidant Effect of N-acetylcysteine in Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury following Hemorrhagic Shock s30 Ricardo M. Camelo; Antonio 0. Portella; Mania K. Koike; Luiz F Poli-de-Figueiredo; Edna F. Montero

Analysis of the Clinical and Laboratory Reatures of Young Adults with Uncomplicated Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at Philippine General Hospital—Is Hospitalization Needed? s30 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Carlo I. Santella

Strong Ion Gap is Better than Serum Lactate or Anion Gap at Predicting Intensive Care Unit Admission, In-Hospital Mortality, or Need for Transfusion or Vasopresor Support s30 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Carlo I. Santella

Glycemia: Triage during Emergencies s31 Sophie Abrassart; Pierre Hoffmeyer

Outcome Evaluation of Trauma Patients at a Hospital in Iran s31 HamidR. Hatamabady

Utility of a Prehospital Electrocardiogram in Patients Presenting with Syncope s31 Paul Kivela; Cindy Pierson; Marilyn Manfredi Poster Presentations—Research

(R94) Effect of Web-Based Health Education on the Knowledge and Cognition of Hepatitis B among Female University Students s32 Chich-Hsiu Hung; Ya-iuen Huang

(R9S) Rapid Evacuation Roadmap Distribution between Adjacent Hospitals in Cochabamba, Bolivia s32 Juan Pablo Escalera Antezana; Fatima Milenka Siacara Aguayo; Jorge Leonardo Duran Crespo

(R96) Radiological Validation of Endotracheal Tube Insertion Depth in Hospital Emergency Patients s33 Wolfgang Geisser; Marc 0. Maybauer; Holger Wolff; Ernst Pfenninger; Dirk M. Maybauer

(R97) Baseline Survey of Process of Care among Stroke Patients at the University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital s33 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Cherie Grace G. Quingking

(R98) Problems in Evaluating Mobile Clinic Activities Under the Medical Relief Program in the Earthquake-Affected Area in Mid-Java, Indonesia s33 Keiji Nakata

(R99) Development and Implementation of a Participatory Evaluation Method for Assessing Disaster Dril Performance s34 Mamata V. Kene; Parveen Parmar; John E. Arbo; Stephanie Rosborough; Satchit Balsari; Robert B. Bristow; Hilarie Cranmer

(R100) European Union Project: Identifying the Needs of Medical First Responders in Disasters s34 Stepan Vymetal; Chaim Rafalowski

(R101) Comparison of Three Methods to Decrease Cardiovascular Responses to Pin Application s34 Chhavi Papneja; Ashwin Udupa

(R102) Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Abdominal Tourniquet Device for the Control of Pelvic and Lower Extremity Hemorrhage s34 EricM. Greenfield; Richard B. Schwartz; John M. Croushorn; Dewitt A. Pittman; Stephen A. Shiver; Jeffrey R. Lee

(R103) Using GRADE to Assess Quality of Prehospital Medicine Literature s35 Ayan Sen; Sandra I. Castelblanco Betancourt Oral Presentations—Mass Gatherings

Preparing for and Responding to Public Health Issues at a Major Mass Gathering: What Happened at WorldYouth Day 2008? s36 Jan Fizzell; Paul K. Armstrong; Sheena Adamson; Kerry Chant; Jeremy M. McAnulty

Guidelines for Disater Management to Prevent Mass-Psychogenic Illness s36 Johan S. de Cock; Charlotte Meiss-de Haas; Irene van der Woude; Nicol Nijhuis; Nenk Jans; Jan Christiaanse

Evaluating the Influential Factors in Mass-Gathering Casualty Presentations—WorldYouth Day, Sydney, Australia 2008 s36 Paul Arbon; Jamie Ranse

Ambulatory Medical Services in Hajj s37 Tarek S. Arnous

Emergency System for Spectators at the Fl Grand Prix in Japan, 2007 and 2008 s37 Norifumi Ninomiya

EURO 08: Lessons Learned from a Nearby State of a Host City s37 Mathieu Potin; Jean-Gabriel Clouet; Georges Vittoz; Laurent Vallotton; Bertrand Yersin

Medical Activities and Preparedness in Professional Baseball Stadiums in Japan: A Survey s38 Kazutoshi Kuboyama; Seishiro Marukaiva; Kazumasa Yoshinaga

National Guidelines for Safety at Music Events in Sweden s38 Annika Hedelin; Per Ortenwall

Establishing a System of Paramedical Training for those with Bachelors Degrees and Mid-Level Workers in South Africa in Preparation for the 2010 World Cup s38 Theo Ligthelm

Medical Risk Classification for Mass Gatherings s39 Hazel Harley; Andrew Robertson Poster Presentations—Mass Gatherings (P78) SAGEC 67: A Free Incident Management Software Program s39 Hysham Hadef;Jean Claude Bartier (P79) Reducing Public Anxiety following a Mass-Casualty Incident s39 Buria B. Adini; Kobi Peleg; Robert Cohen; Daniel Laor (P80) Planning Healthcare Resources at Sporting Events in Sweden s39 Amir Khorram-Manesh; Andreas Berner; Annika Hedelin; Per Ortenwall; Gib Ahlen

(P81) Role of a Mobile Intensive Care Unit in the Emergency Medical System of the G8 Summit in Japan s40 Takayki Irahara; Hisayoshi Kondo; Seizan Tanabe; Akira Fuse; Shigeki Kushimoto; Hirouki Yokota

(P82) Public Health Services "Getting a Seat at the Emergency Planning Table" s40 Jan Fizzel; Paul K. Armstrong; Kerry Chant

(P83) Lessons Learned during a Mass Gathering of 10,000 Indigenous People s40 Sandra I. Castelblanco Betancourt; Ayan Sen

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(P84) Schoolies Festival—Whata Do Young People Do to Stay Safe and Healthy at Crowded Events? s41 Alison Hutton; Allison Roderick; Rebecca Munt; PaulArbon Oral Presentations—Emergency Medical Services Developing Diaster Medical Assistance Teams in Australia—From Kandalhudoo to Karratha .. .s41 Andrew Robertson; Muriel Leclercq

Development of an Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System in Sri Lanka: An Experimental Report s41 Ross E. Bryan, IV; Amy Marr; Donnie Woodyard; Mohammad' Daya

Unintentional Injury Outcomes Secondary to Pedestrian Traffic Crashes in Southwestern Nigeria: A Descriptive Analysis from One Major Medical Center s42 Adeleke 0. Ifesanya; Dolapo O. Afuiuape; Victoria N. Okoje; Atinuke Agunloye; Adesola Odole; Clement A. Okolo; Temitope O.Alonge

Emergency Medical Services and a Community Development Medicinial Unit: An Overview .. .s42 Tarak D. Banerjee

Emergency Medical Services Response to the Athens Riots in December 2008 s43 Anastasia Zygoura; Dimitrios Fragkos; Panagiotis Giannouleas; Alexandros Sotiriou; Demetrios G. Pyrros

Medical Incident Commander in the UK Ambulance Services s43 Darren Walter; Andrew Quin

Helicopter Evacuation of Mountain Accident Victims s43 Przemyslaw W. Gula; Wojciech Mateja; Stainislaw Krzeptowski-Sabala

Lightning Strikes in the Polish Tatras s44 Przemyslaw W. Gula; Stainislaw Krzeptowski-Sabala; Sylweriusz Kosinksi

Patient Opinion is Equal to Clinical Examination Regarding Fracture Prediction s44 Geraint Williams

Fear, Familiarity, and the Perception of Risk: A Quantitative Analysis of Disaster-Specific Concerns of Paramedics s44 Erin C. Smith; Frank L. Archer; Frederick M. Burkle, Jr.

A New Platform to Enhance the Transportation Safety Aspects of Emergency Medical Services s45 Nadine Levick; Arthur Cooper; Eileen Frazer

First Aid and Harm Minimization for Victims of Road Trauma s45 PaulArbon

The Changing Nature of Emergency Medical Services Delivery: Potential Models for the Future! s45 Frank Archer Evidence-Based Case Development for Blast Injury Assessment and Management s46 Robert D. Furberg; PaulN. Kizakevich; R. T. Dombroski; John W. Holloway; Kevin Merino

War Injuries in the 2000s s46 Limor Aharonson-Daniel; Eran Hadad; Aviram Weiss; Gil Hirshhorn; Dagan Schwartz

The Impact of Surgery on Global Health s46 K.A. Kelly McQueen

Value of Cranial Computed Tomography in Adult Patients with Mild Head Injuries: A Prospective Study at the University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital s47 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Farajane C. Sebastian

Public Health Department Training of Emergency Medical Technicians for Bioterrorism and Public Health Emergencies: Results of a National Asssessment s47 David S. Markenson; Michael Reilly Poster Presentations—Emergency Medical Services

(N27) Impact of Trauma Volume on the Effectiveness of Computed Tomography of Patients with Head Trauma s47 Chao-Wen Chen; Yue-Wen Chen; Yun-tingLou; Liang-chi Kuo; Hsing-lin Lin; Wei-chee Lee; Yuan-Chia Cheng

(N28) Creation of a Baseline to Cope with Orotracheal Intubation s48 Hysham Hadef; Raphael Gable; Jean Claude Bartier

(N29) Effect of Endotracheal Suctioning on Intracranial Pressure in Severe Head Injured Patients Admitted to the Neurosurgical Unit s48 Sakineh Gholamzadeh; Mostafah Javadi; Shirin Rahnama; B. Zeighami

(N30) Patient Comfort during Prehospital Care s48 Bjorn-Ove Suserud; Anders Jonsson; Magnus Hagiwara; Anna Backlund

(N31) A New Way of Decreasing the Damages due to Paramedics Driving s48 Hysham Hadef; Jean Claude Bartier; Thierry Pelaccia

(N32) Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Intensive Training Increases the Number of Patients Who Will Benefit s49 Fabrice Dami; Vincent Fuchs; Bertrand Yersin

(N33) Dispatching: Seizure Patients May Need Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation s49 Fabrice Dami; Vincent Fuchs; Bertrand Yersin

(N34) On-Site Presence of a Paramedic, Emergency Physician, and Dispatcher is a Key to Success during Major Incidents s49 Fabrice Dami; Vincent Fuchs; Bertrand Yersin

(N35) Do Bystanders Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation? sSO Fabrice Dami; Vincent Fuchs; Bertrand Yersin

(N36) Hospital Emergency Readiness Overview Study s50 Daniel Kollek; A.A. Cwinn

(N37) Comparison of the Effects of Early Plavix Treatment in Emergency Departments sSl Mohamad Kalantari Meibodi; Hamid Kariman; Shahram Alamdari; Hamid Hatamabadi; AH Shahrami

(N38) Early Prescription of Steptokinase in Myocardial Infarction s51 Mohamad Kalantari Meibodi; AH Omrani Nava; Manige Kalantari

(N39) Demography of Patients Transported by Helicopter to Imam Khmeiny Hospital s51 Mohamad Kalantari Meibodi; Parisa Mohamadi; Shahram Alamdari

(N40) World-Class Treatment in Chile in a Complex Case s51 Birgit S. Schertel-Gruenler

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(N41) Growing Demand for Emergency Health Services in Queensland, Australia s52 Gerard FitzGerald; Peter Aitken; Kirsten McKenzie; Erhan Kozan; Vivienne Tippett; Sam Toloo; Joanna Rego; Jeong-ah Kim

(N42) In-Flight Vital Signs Blackbox for Trauma Care s52 Peter F. Hu; Colin F. Mackenzie; Richard Dutton; Ayan Sen; Yan Xiao; Douglas Floccare; Thomas Scalea

(N43) Improvement of Prehospital Medical Care System in Tbilisi 2005-2008 s53 Kakhaber Chikhradze; Madona Cheishvili; David Oshkereli; Tamar Zhorzholiani

(N44) Epidemiologic Profile of Victims of Firearms and Cutting Weapons in the Emergency Room in the Outskirts of Brasilia s53 DurvalJ. Sobreiro; Leonardo M. Lima; Ivan G. Castilho; Vitorino Modesto

(N45) Fastrach Laryngeal Mask Airway Management in Out-of-Hospital Critical Care Patients s53 AntonioIglesias-Vazquez;Maria Victoria Barreiro-Diaz;Luisa Chayan-Zas;Maria Cegarra-Garcia; Rafael Garcia-Bentanzos; Antonio Rodriguez-Nunez; Luis Sanchez Santos; MiguelFreire-Tellado; Jacobo Varela-Portas; Leonor Estevez-Alvarez

(N46) Introduction of a Semi-Automatic, External Defibrillation Program in Galicia—A Cost- Effectness Study s54 Antonio Iglesias-Vazquez; Luisa Chayan-Zas; Maria Victoria Barreiro-Diaz; Maria Cegarra-Garcia; Rafael Garcia-Bentanzos; Antonio Rodriguez-Nunez; Luis Sanchez Santos; Monica Penas-Penas; Jacobo Varela-Portas; Emilia Perez-Meirino

(N47) Impact of Emergency Department Overcrowding on Regional Disaster Preparedness in the Western Region of Sweden s54 Amir Khorram-Manesh; Johan Aremyr; Annika Hedelin; Per Ortenwall; GibAhlen

(N48) Evaluation and Comparison of Tourniquets for Hemorrhage Control s54 Phillip L. Coule; Dustin J Calhoun; Richard B. Schwartz

(N49) Development of an Emergency Medical Technician Textbook in Sri Lanka s55 Ross E. Bryan, IV; Amy Marr; Donnie Woodyard; Mohammad Day a

(N50) Importance of Nursing Leadership and Management in Emergency Situations s55 Khadijeh Goudarzi; Matin Ghorbati; AH Shahrami; Mariam Nesari; Azam Givary

(N51) Shank Injuries in Prison: More than Skin Deep s56 Tina M. Latimer; David G. Caldicott; Christina L. Catlett

(N52) Impact of Sexual Harassment of Female Nurses at the Workplace s56 Sana S. Rajani; Mumtaz A. Hamirani

(N53) Preliminary Study on Prehospital Use of Airway Scope® s56 Kazunori Yamashita; Atsuko Nagatani; Tatsuya Nagano; Kanayuki Kawamae; Kouhei Takahashi; Tetsuya Sakamoto; Takao Masuzaki; Keiichi Tanaka; Tetsuo Hatanaka; Kazutoshi Kuboyama; Seishiro Marukawa

(N54) Awareness of Overseas Disaster Relief Activities among Undergraduate Emergency Medical Technician Candidates s57 Keiji Nakata

(N55) Incidence of Chest Tube Malposition in Emergency Patients s57 Wolfgang Geisser; Dirk M. Maybauer; Holger Wolff; Ernst Pfenninger; Marc 0. Maybauer

(N56) Functional Decline of Elderly Patients with Acute Illnesses Requiring Emergency Admission s57 Ashish Goel; Prakash K. Sharma; Wilma Wilson; Musawwaar A. Khan;A.B. Dey

(NS7) Tool for Control over Emergency Medical Dispatch during a Major Incident s58 Bengt Asple'n; Annika Hedelin; Per Ortenwall

(NS8) Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Train Stations and Trains: The Need for Public Access Defibrillation s58 Mathieu Potin; Yves-Alain Costantini; Laurent Vallotton; Bertrand Yersin

(N59) Effectiveness of Prehospital Triage and Emergency Management during Mass-Casualty Incidents with the Utilization of Information Technology s58 Arkadiusz Trzos; Ryszard Odrzywolek; Piotr Pieczara; Monika Starowicz; Wladyslaw Mizia

(N60) Meeting Reproductive Health Needs during Crises s59 Bosede F Akinbolusere

(N61) Traffic Injuries: Realities and Prospects in the Regional Hospital of Kebili, Tunisia s59 Anis B. Chetoui

(N62) Experience of Thoracic Traum at a Level-1 Trauma Center s59 Subodh Kumar; Amit Gupta; Biplab Mishra; Sushma Sagar; Maneesh Singhal; Gyan Saurabh

(N63) Emergency: A Ward with Potential Independency s60 AH Shahrami; Behroz Hashemi; H. Rahmati; Hamid Kariman; Banafshe Shahrami; Reza Shahrami; Hossein Alimohammadi; Nader Tavakoli; Hamidreza Hatamabadi; Mostafa Alavi Moghadam

(N64) Firearm Injury, A Clinical Profile Study s60 Tej P. Sinha; Shabbir Khan; N. Shambhu; Sanjeev Bhoi

(N65) Violent Patients in the Prehospital Setting s60 Stefan Trenkler; Monika Paulikova

(N66) Emergency Medicine as a Specialty in Iran: The Experience of Strategic Management Plan Development of Emergency Department in a University General Hospital s61 AH Shahrami; AH Arhami Dolatabadi; Alireza Ala; Shahram Alamdari; F. Farahbakhsh; Hamidreza Hatamabadi; Nader Tavakoli; Mostafa Alavi Moghadam; Afshin Amini; Hojat Drakhshanfar; Behroz Hashemi; Hamid Kariman; Banafshe Shahrami; Reza Shahrami

(N67) Are Polish Rescuers Prepared for the Whole Implementation of Automatic External Defibrillators? s61 Marcin Koszowski; Prezemysaw Gua; Magorzata Koszowska; Dawid Larysz Oral Presentations—Pandemics

Comparing Training for Dealing with Pandemic Influenza to Performance Assessment s61 Bruria B. Adini; Avishay Goldberg; Robert Cohen; Yaron Bar-Dayan

Do Standard Operating Procedures for Pandemic Influenza Relate to Performance Assessment? s62 Bruria B. Adini; Avishay Goldberg; Robert Cohen; Yaron Bar-Dayan

Pandemic Influenza Triage System s62 Charles Little; Joseph Wathen; Diana Herrero; Stephen Cantrill

Attitudes of Japanese Healthcare Professions toward an Avian Influenza Pandemic s62 Satoko Mitani; Etsuko Ozaki; Naohisa Fujita; Yoshiyuki Watanabe

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Designing Alternate Care Sites for Pandemics and Public Health Emergencies s63 MichaelJ. Reilly; David S. Markenson; Sherlita Amler

Planning for Uptake of Vaccine among Healthcare Workers during the Next Influenza Pandemic s63 Thomas F. Appleyard

Vaccine Purchasing for an Influenza Pandemic: A Comparative Cost-Benefit Model s63 Itamar Grotto; Ran Balicer

Do Emergency Medicine Department Healthcare Professionals Feel Ready to Face Pandemics? s64 Efstratios Photiou

"Recovery": The Forgotten Stage of Pandemic Planning s64 Frank Archer; Caroline Spencer

Region-Specific Guidance for the European Rural Population Regarding Avian Influenza s65 Agoritsa Baka; Joannis Polychronakis; Elena Riza; Athena Linos

An Outcomes-Based Approach for Planning Healthcare Delivery during a Pandemic s65 Sandra Allaire Poster Presentations—Pandemics (F43) National-Level Organizational Model for Coping with an Epidemic Outbreak s65 Orna Ben-Natan; David Hassin; Dina Van-Dijk; Avishay Goldberg (F44) Kenyan Traditional Circumcision a Protective Measure Against Spread of HIV/AIDS s66 Gordon Nyabade

(F45) Hepatitis B Infection among Drug Users: Findings from Kathmandu s66 Rabindra Tiwari; Hira Malla; Shree Kafle

(F46) It's Not a Questions of If but When and How Bad: Stage 6, Pandemic H5N1: Increased and Sustained Transmission in the General Population—A Clear and Present Danger s66 Michael E. Donnellan

(F47) Emergency Department Preparedness for Detection of an Infectious Disease Outbreak s66 Ghee Hian Lim

(F48) Improving Pandemic Response Strategies—Lessons from Responding to Multiple Seasonal Influenza Outbreaks at World Youth Day 2008 s67 Jan Fizzell; Paul K. Armstrong; Sheena Adamson; Kerry Chant; Jeremy M. McAnulty

(F49) Nowcasting of Pandemic Outbreaks: Integration of Syndrome Detection with Real-Time Assessment of Disease Control Strategies s67 Toomas Timpka; Anders Grimvall; Henrik Ericksson; Olle Eriksson; Joakim Ekberg; Einar Holm; Magnus Stromgren; Elin Gursky

(F50) Disaster Waiting to Happen: A Predicted Shigella Epidemic that Unfolded s68 Knut-Ole Sundnes; H. Asak

(FS1) Awaiting Pandemic Avian Influenza: The Viewpoint of Emergency Medicine Department Personnel in Northern Ital s68 Efstratios Photiou; Massimo Azzaretto

Oral Presentations—Spanish

Programa Hospital Seguro en Mexico s69 Felipe Cruz-Vega

Prevention de Infecciones Nosocomiales Posterior a Inundation Hospitalaria s69 Concepion Grajales Muniz; Miguel Romero Tellez; E. Bernal Vazquez

Enfermedades Transmisibles entre los Derechohabientes del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, en el Estado de Tabasco, Mexico durante la Inundation de 2007 s69 Oscar Cruz Orozco; Miguel Romero Tellez; Felipe Cruz- Vega; Pedro Ramos Rocha

Plan del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ante una Probable Pandemia de Influenza s70 Pedro Ramos Rocha; Miguel Romero Tellez; Oscar Cruz Orozco

Comite Municipal de Hospitales para Prevention de Desastres s70 Ramon Balderas Ruiz; Francisco Sanchez Lopez; Giovanni E. Porras-Ramirez

Unidades de Reanimacion Puente de Union de la Atencion Medica Prehospitalaria y los Servicios de Urgencias Hospitalarios s70 Miguel A. Valladares Aranda

Effects Cardiovasculares y Metabolicos en el Agotamiento por Calor a 50° y 100% de Humedad Proyecto Nacia s71 Hafid E. Sanchez Flores; German Gonzalez Hildalgo; Guillermo Lopez Castellanos

Los Ninos en los Desastres s71 Maria C. Saenz

Perfil del Paciente del Triage del Hospital General Regional No. 24 s71 Rafael A. Chavarria Mas; Belem Cortez

Frecuencia y Factores Asociados al Uso Inadecuado de la Consulta de Urgencias s72 Jorge Loria-Castellanos; Leonardo Flores Maciel; Miguel A. Valladares Aranda; Guadalupe Marquez Avila

Migration Incidental de Alambre Guia en Colocacion de Cateter Subclavio, Reporte de un Caso s72 Jorge Loria-Castellanos; Juan M. Rocha Luna; Miguel A. Valladares Aranda

Patron y Calidad Subjetiva de Sueno en Medicos Residentes y su Relation sobre la Ansiedad y Depresion s72 Jorge Loria-Castellanos; Juan M. Rocha Luna; Guadalupe Marquez Avila

Meningoccocemia Fulminante, Reporte de un Caso s73 HafidE. Sanchez Flores; Jorge Loria-Castellanos; Juan M. Rocha Luna

Caracteristicas de los Pacientes Sometidos a Maniobras de Reanimacion Cardiocerebropulmonar s73 Jorge Loria-Castellanos; Erik A. Escobar Delgadillo; Hector A. Beristain Ramirez

Trabajo Multidiciplinario en Fractura de Pelvis s73 Guillermo Perez Chagerben Oral Presentations—Pediatrics Problems of Rendering Medical Aid to Children during Disasters s73 Leonid Roshal

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Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for Children s73 David S. Markenson; Michael Reilly

Evaluation of the Pediatric Major Incident Preparedness in the Hospitals in the North West of England s74 Darren Walter; Debbie Suen

Childrens' Reactions and their Caretakers' Condition after the Yogyakarta Earthquake s74 Elsi D. Hapsari; Sri Hartini; Christantie Effendy; Lely Lusmilasari; Sunartini Hapsara; Hiroya Matsuo; Satoshi Takada

Profile of Pediatric Trauma Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department of the All India Institute of Medical Science Trauma Center s75 Lokesh; Sanjeev Bhoi; Ankur Goswami; Deepak Agarwal; John Bern; Viplab Mishra; Tej Prakash

Australasian Emergency Department Preparedness for Disasters and Mass-Casualty Incidents Involving Children s75 Joanne E. Grindlay; Peter Archer

Psychosocial Impact of Disasters on Children—A Case Study from Sri Lanka s75 Prabhath D. Patabendi Poster Presentations—Pediatrics

(G52) Family Presence during Pediatric Reanimation: An Additional Stress Factor? s76 Emmanuel Rohrbacher (G53) Post-Traumatic Stress Symtomology in Pediatric Accidental Injuries— An Asian Perspective s76 Gene Ong; Jasmine Pang; Li Jen Tan; Cheong Sing Tian; Kee Chong Ng

(GS4) Urban Health Programs in Kathmandu: An Effective Child Labor-Related Intervention Program s76 Rabindra Tiwari

(GSS) Out-of-Hosptial Pediatric Cardiopulomary Arrest in a Rural Community s76 Antonio Iglesias-Vazquez; Maria Victoria Barreiro-Diaz; Antonia Rodriguez-Nunez; Luis Sanchez Santos; Luisa Chayan-Zas; Maria Cegarra-Garcia; Rafael Garcia-Betanzos; Leonor Estevez-Alvarez; Carmen Sierra-Queimadelos; Jose M. Mendez-Casares

(GS6) Pilot Study for a Pediatric Trauma Registry in Greece s77 Agoritsa Baka; Nektarios Lainakis; Giannis Alexandrou; Eleftheria Efstathiou; Nikolaos Flaris; Evagelia Gougoudi; Dimitris Papamihail; Gerassimos Zervos

(GS7) Developing Methodologies to Assess Resource Needs and Ability to Provide Interventions and Care for Children in Disasters, Terrorism, and Public Health Emergencies .s77 David S. Markenson; MichaelJ. Reilly

(G58) Medical Aid to Children Injured in Traffic Crashes in the Moscow Area s78 Vladimir M. Rozinov; Serge G. Suvorov; Lily V. Ezelskaja; GeorgA. Chogovadze; Vladimir I. Petlakh Keynotes

Psychosocial Activities with Children Impacted by War and Natural Disasters s78 Dr. Nila Kapor Stanulovic Keeping Abreast of Change s78 Alessandro Loretti, MD

Oral Presentations—Communication and Information

Space-Based Solutions for Disaster and Emergency Medicine s79 David Stevens; Joerg Szarzynski

Emergency Communication Inter-Operability Planning for Disaster Response s79 Mohamad H. Alzaghal

Prehospital Application of Telemedicine during Sudden-Onset Disasters s80 Matthew Turnock; Negin Mastouri; Alim Jivraj

The Global EMS Forum: Implementation of an International Emergency Medical Services Networking and Information-Sharing Platform s80 Darren Walter; Nadine Levick; Patrick Bourke; Steve Rapanos; John Chew; Jay Reich; Dave Kingdom; Jerry Overton

Information-Sharing Networks for Global Emergency Medical Services s81 Andrey Trufanov; Antonio Caruso; Nikolay Dmitrienko; Fernando Galindo; Matteo Guidotti; Elin Gursky; Sergey Kolesnikov; Ron Laporte; Faina Linkov; Massimo Raghieri; Alessandra Rossodivita; Evgeniy Shubnikov

Teleconsultation and Telemedicine in Disaster Medicine and Austere Environments— "Satellite Telemedicine": A New Italian Project of the Alpini Field Hospital s81 Alessandra Rossodivita; Pantaleo L. Losapio

1-1-2 and Emergency Telecommunications in Europe: Past, Present, and Future s81 Olivier Paul-Morandini Poster Presentations—Communication and Information (068) MedDSM Proposes Two New Tools to Cope with Disasters s82 Hysham Hadef; Thierry Pelaccia; Jean Claude Bartier; Jacques Texier (069) Video-Assisted Telemedicine System Improves Triage and Situational Awareness in Disaster Response s82 Peter F Hu; Colin F. Mackenzie; Ayan Sen; Steven Johnson; John Spearman; Steven Seebode; Timothy Brooks; David Gagliano; Dale Yeattes; Gary R. Gilbert; Ronald K. Poropatich

(070) Radiation Event Medical Management Website: A Tool for Healthcare Responders s83 Judith Bader; Jeffrey Nemhauser; Florence Chang; Norman Coleman

(071) Mobile Medical Record—A Life-Saving Tool s83 Nir Friedman; Avishay Goldberg

(072) Evaluation of the Use of a Universal Emergency Services Number in the National Capital Territory of India s83 Amit Gupta; Bradley Peckler; Megan Lasseter; Nilimajai; Subodh Kumar; Biplab Mishra; Sushma Sagar

(073) Management of Incoming Information in the Athens Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Center: Premliminary Results s84 Costas Bachtis; Maria Ktena; Zafiro Michalaki; Marina Gatsouli; Anastasia Zygoura; Demetrios Pyrros

(074) Innovations in Disaster Communicataion s84 Constance J. Doyle

(075) How US Cities are Using the Web to Communicate Disaster Information to Individuals with Chronic Illness s84 Owen D. Kulemeka

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(076) Application of Information Technology in Disaster Medicine: Ubiquitous Health Aspect s85 Soon-Joo Wang

(077) Telemedical Consultations in Field Hospital in Extreme Situations s85

Vladimir I. Petlakh; Vladimir M. Rozinov; Boris A. Kobrinsky Oral Presentations—Recent Events

State of Injury of National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Search-and-Rescue Team Members and Countermeasures after the Wenchuan Earthquake s86 Haojun Fan Features of a Russian Mobile Hospital after the 2008 Earthquake in China s86 Vladimir Ilyich Petla; Aleksandr S. Popov; Valery E. Shabanov

Medical Response to Earthquakes: An Experience-Based Study from Recent Earthquakes in Iran s86 Ahmadreza Djalali; Hamidreza Khankeh; Gunnar Ohle'n; Maaret Castren; Vahid Hoseinijenab

December 2008 Riots in Greece s87 Costas Bachtis; Maria Athanasiou; Panagiotis Daskalakis; Maria Ktena; Grigorios Alexpoulos; Christina Faflia; Zafiro Michalaki; Demetrios Pyrros

Scene Hazards for Emergency Medical Services Personnel during the Recent Athens Riots s87 Costas Bachtis; Zafiro Michalaki; Maria Ktena; Theoni Giatra; Marina Gatsouli; Anastasia Zygoura; Demetrios Pyrros

Lessons Learned from Cyclone Gonu in Iran s87 Reza Asadollahi; Farzad Panahi; Mostafa Asadollahi

Immediate Medical Response for a Mass-Casualty Incident in Japan—Lessons Learned from the Akihabara Stabbing Spree in 2008 s88 Akira Fuse; Hiroshi Kamura; Shoji Yokobori; Takashi Araki; Tomohiko Masuno; Masato Miyauchi; Shigeki Kushimoto; Makoto Kawai; Hiroyuki Yokata

Storm Surge: Hurricane Ike, What Can We Learn to Prepare for Future Natural Disasters? s88 Robert Furno; James McCarthy Oral Presentations—International Law and Ethics

Terrorism-Related Injuries and Ethics—What Does the Evidence Show? s88 Kobi Peleg; Israel Trauma Group Ethical Problems for International Health Volunteers s89 Richard M. Zoraster

A New Ethical Model for Examining Emergency Medicine s89 Omar Ha-Redeye

Regulating the Helping Hand: Improving Legal Preparedness for Cross-Border Disaster Medicine s89 David Fisher; Jean-Luc Poncelet; Gail Neudorf Oral Presentations—Preparation and Planning

Medical Plan and Activity for 2008 G8 Hokkaido-Lake Toya Summit s90 Yasufumi Asai; Katsutoshi Tanno; Kazuhisa Mori; Satoshi Nara; Yasuhiro Yamamoto

Indian Perspective of Medical Preparedness and Capacity Building in Disaster Management ... .s90 Vivek Chhabra; Janak R. Bhardwaj

Global Partnership in Prehospital Care: A Case Study with Richmond Ambulance Authority and Save Accident Victims of Nigeria s90 Edeaghe E. Ehikhamenor; Jerry Overton

Colombian Nationwide Emergency Medical Services Legislation Project s91 Andres M. Rubiano; Juan C. Puyana

Capacity Planning of Ambulance Services in the Netherlands s91 Geertjan Kommer; Laurens Zwakhah

Workshop Utilizing Action Cards to Improve Disaster Preparedness in the University Hospital s91 Taichi Takeda; Tsuyoshi Hatada; Ken Ishikura; Yukinari Omori

Creation of Surge Capacity by Early Discharge of Hospitalized Patients at Low Risk for Untoward Events s92 CD. Kelen; Melissa L. McCarthy; ChaddK. Kraus; Ru Ding; Edbert B. Hsu; Guohua Li; Judy B. Shahan; Gary B. Green

Improvised Oxygen Supply System for Pandemic and Disaster Use s92 Charles Little; Mark Merritt; Allen Wentworth

Augmentation of Hospital Emergency Department Surge Capacity: Reccomendations of the Australasian Surge Strategy Working Group s92 David Bradt; Peter Aitken; Gerry FitzGerald; Roger Swift; Gerard O'Reilly; Bruce H. Bartley

Creating Hospital Surge Capacity: Hospital Emergency Support Functions and Re-Allocation of Resources s93 James L. Paturas; Anthony Tomassoni; Christopher Cannon; Stewart Smith

Consensus and Tools Needed for Evaluation of Emergency Management Capabilities s93 Melissa L. McCarthy; Peter Brewster; Edbert B. Hsu; Joseph Barbera; Anthony Macintyre; Gabor D. Kelen

Field Hospital and Clinics in Disaster Response: A Red Cross Model s93 Hossam Elsharkawi; Gail Neudorf

Hospital Emergency Manager's Assessment for the Development of a Computerized Disaster Information Management System s94 Jacqueline Ward-Gaines; Ilkyeun Ra; LeeSub Lee; Allison Gehrke; Prashanth Batchu; Charles Little

Preparedness and Capacity Building in the Community s94 Fatimah Lateef

Task Shifting: A Way to Expand the Healthcare Workforce during Emergencies s95 Hani Mowafi; Seble Frehywot

Exceptional First Responders: Mental Readiness and Performance Excellence s95 Judy M. McDonald

Building a Prehospital Emergency Service Network in a Disaster-Affected Area: Southwest Aceh, Indonesia s95 Hendro W. Wardoyo

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Assessment of Earthquake Preparedness of the Emergency Medical Services in Bogota, Colombia: A Mixed Methods Analysis s96 Sandra I. Castelblanco Betancourt; Ay an Sen; Graham Marsh

Strengthening International Preparedness and Response for Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies: Role for the Connecticut Radiological Emergency Response for Biodosimetry Laboratory s96 James L. Paturas; Nicholas Dainiak; Joseph Albanese; Stewart Smith

Classification System for Hospital Surge Capacity s97 Theo Ligthelm

The European Community Mechanism for Major Emergencies s97 Francis Levy

Disaster Risk-Reduction Efforts and Factors Affecting Flood Disaster Management: A Case Study of Katakwi District-Olupe and Ngariam Camps s97 Ssemwanga S. Ssemwanga; Namakula M. Muwanga; Mugimba R. Mugimba; Sakaza T. Sakaza

Readiness to Confront Disaster: Families and the Disabled Speak Out s97 Susan Speraw

Long-Term Accommodation for Evacuated Residents of Nursing Homes s98 Elaine Davey

Emergency Preparedness for Various Threats s98 Bruria B. Adini; Avishay Goldberg; Robert Cohen; Yaron Bar-Dayan

Exploring the Emergency Preparedness Competencies of Disaster Healthcare Responders during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita s98 Lynn A. Slepski

Mobile Virtual Disaster Beds Supporting Hospital Surge Capacity s99 Charles Little; Jacqueline Ward-Gaines; Michael Yaron; Homer Castro

Humanitarian Medical Aid to Developing Nations: A Recipient Country's Perspective s99 Ravindra Jammihal; Harry Ralte; Nobhojit Roy

The Nurses' Perspective: Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Medicine Systems in Developing Countries through Nurse Participation slOO Lisa M. Hilmi; Robert B. Bristow; AnilJasinghe; Eeshara Kottegoda Vithana; Sol Kuah; Ranjith Ellwala; Pushpa de Zoysa Poster Presentations—Preparation and Planning (H60) Natural Disasters—Spearheading the Alarming Increase of Global Risks slOO Nikoi-Olai Portillo; Juan Olivarez

(H61) Hospital Disaster Planning slOO AH Vafei

(H62) Evaluation of Emergency Medical Services in Saudi Hospitals: Healthcare Providers' Perspectives slOl Saad Alghanim

(H63) Technological Challenges to Medical Practice in the 21st Century slOl Joseph Mclsaac

(H64) Hospital Reinforcement Team Preparedness for a Mass-Casualty Incident slOl Odeda Benin-Goren; Ayala Lior; Pinchas Halpern; Ronen Libster; Ofer Lehavi; Tina Shamis

(H65) Bagh Regrows—Earthquake Survivors as Catalysts of Community and Personal Reconstruction slOl TanzeelAnsari; R.J. 0rner

(H66) Capacity Building in Emergency Medicine—An Initiative following the Tsunami in Sri Lanka slO2 Prabhath D. Patabendi

(H67) Emergency Response Plan for a Teaching Hospital in Sri Lanka slO2 Ayanthi S. Karunarathne; Lakruwan Dassanayake; Prasanna Gunasena

(H68) "We Don't Have a Backup Plan": An Exploration of Family Emergency Preparedness Plans following Stroke slO2 Tracey L. 0'Sullivan; Louise Lemyre; Hillel M. Finestone; Grant Russell; Andrea Ghazzawi; CarolAmaratunga

(H69) Compliance with Statutory Major Incident Exercise Schedules in the Hospitals of North West England slO3 Darren Walter; Sophia Cashman

(H70) Surge Capacity Preparation for a Major Incident in the Hospitals ofNorth West England slO3 Darren Walter; Sophia Cashman

(H71) Managing Surge Capacity—Lessons Learned from a National Mass-Casualty Simulation Exercise slO3 Gary P. Choa; Mark K. Leong

(H72) Emergency Medical Information System and the Strategy of Disaster Medicine slO4 Hisayoshi Kondo

(H73) Resource Continuity Overview Database and Rating System slO4 Paul Dajuk

(H74) Athens International Airport Medical Services Preparedness for Coping with Airport Disasters slO4 Anastasia Zygoura; Dimitra Gesoura; Marina Gatsouli; Athanasia Togia; Efsstathia Koutroumpa; Evangelos Prekas; Demetrios G. Pyrros

(H75) Hospital Preparedness for Non-Conventional Event—Drill Evaluation slOS Odeda Benin-Goren; Ofer Lehavi; Tina Shamis; Ayala Lior; Pinchas Halpern; Ronen Libster

(H76) Mapping Support for a Health Emergency System slO5 Karel Antos; Bruno Jezek; Jan Vanek; Miroslav Prochazka

(H77) Disaster Preparedness by Residents in an Earthquake- and Tsunami-Prone Area slOS Taichi Takeda; Tsuyoshi Hatada; Ken Ishikura; Yukinari Omori

(H78) How Well Are Healthcare Institutions Prepared for Disasters? .slO6 Joris Yzermans

(H79) Utility and Risks Associated with the Use of Spontaneous Disaster Volunteers in Disaster Response slO6 Lauren M. Sauer; Christina L. Catlett; Thomas D. Kirch

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(H80) International Non-Governmental Organizations' Roles in Disaster Preparedness in Developing Countries slO6 Lisa M. Hilmi; Eeshara Kottegoda Vithana; AnilJasinghe; Robert B. Bristow; Satchit Bahari; Hillarie Cranmer; Dudley Perera

(H81) Major Influences on Hospital Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness slO7 Lauren M. Sauer; Melissa L. McCarthy; Ann Knebel; Peter Brewster

(H82) Community Capacity Building in Earthquake Preparedness in Colombia: Lessons Learned from a Survey of Perceived Needs slO7 Sandra I. Castelblanco Betancourt; Ay an Sen

(H83) Utilizing Paramedics to Provide In-Hospital, Critical Care Surge Capacity slO7 MichaelJ. Reilly; David S. Markenson

(H84) MultidisciplinaryTeam Discharge Rounding Improves Daily Hospital Surge Capacity and May Benefit Disaster Preparedness slO8 Ayan Sen; Yan Xiao; Sun-Ah Lee; Peter Hu; James Haan; James O'Connor; Andrew Pollack; Richard Dutton; Thomas Scalea

(H85) mumbaiVOICES: Citizen-Powered Analysis of Disaster Response Systems slO8 Satchit Balsari; Alka Parikh; Mihir Bhatt; Jennifer Leaning

(H86) Disaster Management and Public Health slO9 Jeffrey Levett; Vicky Papanicolaou

(H87) "Sahabat" Clinic ("My Friend" Clinic) Preparedness to Cope with Disasters slO9 Marie Caesarini

(H88) Development Methodology of New Disaster Medical Response Guideline through Step-Wide Analysis slO9 Soon-Joo Wang; Eun-Goo Ham

(H89) Development of a Business Plan for Emergency Ward as a Strategic Priority sllO AH Shahrami; Behroz Hashemi; Hamid Kariman; Hossein Alimohammadi; AH Arhami Dolatabadi; Hamidreza Hatamabadi; Banafshe Shahrami; Reza Shahrami

(H90) Hospital Disaster Planning sllO Mohamad Kalantari Meibodi; Hamid Kariman; Afshin Aminil Sharam Alamdari; Hossein Alimohammadi; Hamid Hatamabadi; Mostsfa Alavimoghadam; Manige K. Meibodi; AH Shahrami Oral Presentations—French

Principes dorganisation des secours pourles catastrophes, l'exemple francais sllO Henri Julien

Le concept de triage en France sill Luc A. Ronchi

La gestion des populations dans les feux de forets en Europe mediterraneenne sill Jean-Yves Bassetti

Le Poste de Secours Medical Avance, un outil de gestion de crise pour le SAMU de Guyane sill Gerald Egmann; Jean Laversanne; Thierry le Guen; Michel Durand; Antonio Guell

Les secours transfrontaliers, de la catastrophe de Sandoz a Regio-kat et Epi-Rhin dans la region du Rhin superieur sll2 Francis Levy

Apports de la regulation medicale a la qualite des soins d'urgence sll2 Bernard Nemitz

A propos de 22,000 utilisations de defibrillateurs semi-automatiques par les sapeurs pompiers francais sll2 Henri Julien Oral Presentations—Exercises and Drills Innovative Approaches to Emergency Management Drills in South Asia sll3 Kiran Pandit; John E. Arbo; Satchit Ba/sari; Hilarie Cranmer; Dario Gonzalez; Robert Bristow

Experience with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evaluation Tool in a Developing Nation sll3 John E. Arbo; Mamata Kene; Satchit Balsari; Christopher Tedeschi; Eeshara Vithana; Lisa Hi/mi; Robert Bristow; Hilarie Cranmer

Emergency Information Management and the Onset of Disasters: An Evidence-Based Study sll4 Vahid Hoseinijenab; Ahmadreza Djalali; Mohammad AH Barkhordari; Bijan Daftari; Mohammad Khatib

Simulations, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Judgement: Lessons Learned sll4 Chris Huggins

Using Disaster Simulations to Identify Surge Capacity Strategies that May Reduce Emergency Department Overcrowding sll4 Laurie A. Mazurik; Dean Popov; Alan Dick

Major Incident Preparedness—A Hospital Review of a Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Exercise: Lessons Learned! sll5 Diana M. Patton

Medical Responses of Designated Radiological Emergency Medical Hospitals during a Mass- Casualty Nuclear Accident: Experiences from a Case-Scenario Simulation sll5 Koichi Tanigawa; Daizaburo Hirata; Kenji Kamiya

Simulation Training in Surge Capacity Management Using the disastermed.ca Emergency Department Simulator sll5 Jeffrey M. Franc-Law; Pier Luigi Ingrassia; Fransesco Delia Corte; Davide Colombo

Use of Video Documentation for Preparation and Evaluation of Disaster Management Exercises sll6 Christopher M. Tedeschi; Naghma Firdaus; Lisa Hi/mi; Elizabeth Gomes; Robert Bristow Oral Presentations—Education

Australian Framework for Diaster Health Education sll6 Gerard J. FitzGerald; Paul Aitken; Paul Arbon; Frank Archer; David Cooper; P. Leggat; C. Myers; Andrew Robertson; M. Tarrant; E. Davis

Development of the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine in the United Kingdom sll6 Aroop Mozumder

Resident Training in Disaster Medicine Using the disastermed.ca Emergency Department Simulator and an Expedited Problem-Based Curiculum sll7 Jeffrey Franc-Law; Sandy L. Dong; Darren Nichols

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Inter-Professional Disaster and Emergency Action Studies Project: Serious Games sll7 Laurie A. Mazurik; Renee Kenny

Specialized Training for Uncommon Circumstances sll7 Tom Haasnoot

Medical Services Curriculum Beyond Borders sll8 Paul Bollinger ' •• '••

An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Triage and Resource Management Process sll8 Robert K. Waddell; Michael Navin

A Literature Review of Disaster Nursing Competencies in Japanese Nursing Journals sll8 Mayumi Kako; Satoko Mitani

Health Incident Command: An Educational Program sll9 Darren Walter

National Disaster Life Support Programs—A Model for Standardized, All-Hazards Disaster Medicine Training sll9 Jack A. Homer; Phillip L. Coule; Richard B. Schwartz

Grounded Development of a Ubiquitous Learning Environment for First Responders sll9 Nicolet CM. Theunissen; Hester E. Stubbe; Caroline Six; Richelle V.Rijk; Martin V. Schaik

Core Competencies for Emergency Preparedness Education for Health Professional Schools .. .sl20 David S. Markenson; MichaelJ. Reilly

Does Simulation Improve Skill and Coordination among the Trauma Team of an Emergency Department? sl20 Sanjeev Bhoi

Evaluating Interprofessional Education in Disaster Management sl20 Trish Dryden

Effectiveness of Simulation-Based Training on the disastermed.ca Emergency Department Simulator in Addition to Problem-Based Learning for Medical Student Training in Disaster Medicine sl21 Jeffrey M. Franc-Law; Pier Luigi Ingrassia; Ragazzoni Luca; Francesco Delia Corte

Enhancement of Self-Critical Learning and Coping with Stress through the Use of Serious Games sl21 Caroline Six; Nicolet Theunissen

Development and Evaluation of a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Health as a Core Program for Health Professionals sl21 Frank Archer Poster Presentations—Education and Training (M4) Blue Cart Drill QA 2004-2007 sl22 Patricia Padjen

(M5) Insights and Lessons Learned from a University Disaster Drill Experience sl22 Trinell Genga (M6) Global Health Education: Is There a Need for a Physician Training Curriculum in Oregon? sl22 Amy Marr; Mohamud Daya; Andy Harris

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(M7) Emergency Medicine International Observational Fellowship: An Educational Model for International Academic Emergency Medicine sl23 Amy Marr; Ross Bryan; Patrick Brunett; Mohamud Daya

(M8) Sri Lankan First Responders Trained in the United States sl23 Paul Bollinger

(M9) Simulation Exercise in International Disaster Relief for Graduate Students sl23 Setsuko Umezaki; Kazue Kawahara; BeiJ. He; Hitomi Sugimoto; Kazuyuki Akinaga; Yuji Fujimoto; Naruyo Kanzaki; Koichi Shinchi

(M10) Institutional Self-Response to a Disaster Drill: A Descriptive Study sl24 Bonnie Arquilla; Vineet Gupta; Baruch S. Fertel; Patricia M. Roblin; StephanA. Kohlhoff; Michael H. Augenbraun

(Mil) Managing a Simulated Disaster using Radio Frequency Identification Technology versus the Use of SMART Cards sl24 Jorma Jokela; Monica Radestad; Ville Harkke; Dan Gryth; Marukku Luoto; Helen Nilsson; Anders Ru'ter; Leif Svensson; Maaret Castren

(M12) Disaster Training via Annual Workshops in India sl25 Sanjay Shetty; Bonnie Arquilla; Sage Weiner; Sari Sogholan; Gentry Wilkerson; Patricia Roblin

(M13) Leading Simulation as a Tool for Internal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines .. .sl25 Odeda Benin-Goren; Ronen Libster; Ayala Lior; Pinchas Halpern

(M14) Selection and Preparedness of Staff sl25 Gennaday V. Kipor

(M16) Trauma and Emergency Ultrasound Training Program for Latin American Countries sl25 Andrews M. Rubiano; Alvaro I. Sanchez; Juan C. Puyana

(M17) "Promoting Cooperation"—A Swedish e-Learning Project Concerning Inter-Professional Cooperation during Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Disasters sl26 Gib Ahle'n; Asa Ljungqvist

(Ml8) Need for Standardized Training for Doctors and Nurses in Trauma Care—A Perspective from a Developing Nation sl26 Sushma Sagar; Maneesh Singhal; Mahesh C. Misra

(M19) Undergraduate Paramedic Nurses, MicroSim, and Patient Assessment in Australian Emergency Health sl26 Virginia Plummer

(M20) Training Course in Emergency Medical Assistance in a Tropical Environment sl27 Gerald Egmann; Frederic Adnet; Bernard Carme

(M21) Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator Training Program sl27 Gina Piazza; Lindsey Anthony

(M22) Significance of Education and Training for Confined-Space Medicine for Medical Teams and Search-and-Rescue Professionals—Lessons Learned from the JR Train Crash in Japan, 2005 sl27 Shinichi Nakayama; Shuichi Kozawa; Takashi Ukai; Masao Tomioka

(M23) Survey of Student Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Emergency Preparedness sl28 David S. Markenson; MichaelJ. Reilly

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(M24) Breadth of Emergency Medicine Training in Pakistan sl28 Saroosh Ahmed; Janet Lin

(M25) Cultural Competency Education: A Challenge for the Humanitarian Workforce sl28 Caroline Spencer; Frank Archer

(M26) Model for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Health sl29 Frank Archer Oral Presentations—Coordination and Clusters

Formation of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Oceania Chapter: Process, Lessons Learned, and the Future sl29 Frank Archer; Frederick Burkle

Lessions Learned from the Health Cluster Approach in Africa sl30 Michel N. Yao A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities: New Orleans and Dresden—Cutting-Edge Issues in Public Health Preparedness sl30 Kristi L. Koenig; Kelly Klein; Tar eg Bey; Charles H. Schultz Oral Presentations—Psychosocial Issues

"In Gauze We Trust": Lessons Learned from a Gendered Profession during Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome sl30 CarolAmaratunga; Tracey O'Sullivan

Gender Matters: Critical Disaster Risk and Care Distinctions in Preparedness, Triage, and Psychosocial Needs sl31 Roxane Richter; Thomas M. Flowers

Emergency Psychosocial Support at the Egyptian Border (Rafah Crossing) for the Survivors of the 2008-2009 Gaza Crisis sl31 Fahmy B. Hanna

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Employment Peculiarities and Marital State in Armenian War Participants sl31 Samvel P. Margayan; Samvuel H. Sukiasyan

Peri-Traumatic Experiences, Acute Stress Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Motor Vehicle Crashes sl32 Tania S. Pires; Angela C. Maia

Canadian Prehospital Readiness for a Tactical Violence Event sl32 Daniel Kollek; Michelle Welsford; Karen Wanger

Psychosocial Issues in India among Victims of Natural Disasters and in Conflicts sl32 Volga Moore; Kaushik Chatterjee; Nobhojit Roy

When Helping Hurts: The Effects of Compassion Fatigue on Disaster and Emergency Workers sl33 Jason Maffia; Anthony J. Maffia

A Psycho-Educational Intervention Program for Police Officers sl33 Briana Barocas; Linda G. Mills; Andrea Miller

Integrating Language, Culture, and Community into Planning for and Providing Effective Emergency Health Care during Disasters: Challenges and Opportunities from the California Experience sl33 Dennis P. Andrulis; Nadia J. Siddiqui; Johnathan Purtle

Hospital/Community: An Integrated Psychosocial Response sl34 Alan Dick; Barb Switzer

The Unexpected Terrorist: The Roles of Women ad Perpetrators of Terrorism sl34 Michael J. Reilly

Psychiatric Morbidity in Bomb Blast Victims: Results from a Developing Country sl35 Sushma Sagar; Rajesh Sagar Poster Presentations—Psychosocial Issues

(191) Democracy, Trauma, and Psychological Distress sl35 Assaddullah Reha (192) Mental Stress Management of Medical Staff in an International Medical Cooperation sl35 Kazue Kawahara; Koichi Shinchi; Sayaka Oguri; Toyohiko Kodama; Kiyoshi Yoshimizu; Naruyo Kanzaki; Yuji Fugimoto

(193) Addressing Humanitarian Concerns: Suffering, Service, and Spirituality in the Disaster Setting sl35 Tamasin Ramsay

(194) "Emotional Triage" Debriefing sl36 Maria C. Saenz

(195) SOS Genius sl36 Maria C. Saenz

(196) Prevalance of Burnout among Emergency Department Staff at the University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital sl36 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Noli L. Rifareal

(197) Analyzing Solitary Death sl37 Kazumi Adachi

(198) Standing Committee on Crisis, Disaster, and Trauma Psychology: Goals within the European and Worldwide Network sl37 Jana Malikova; Salli Saari

(199) Psychosocial Support for People Affected by Mass-Casualty Incidents: Train Accident of EuroCity 108 sl37 Stefan Vymetal;Jana Malikova

(1100) Toward Integrated Emergency Health Services: Alternative Strategies for the Future sl38 Jeannette van der Velde

(1101) Working in Disasters, Under Stress: Expectations and Motivation Sources of Relief Workers in Turkey sl38 AH Coskum; Ilhan Ozturk; Yesim Unal

(1102) Deprivation Prevalence in an Emergency Service and Elaboration of a New "Identifying Test" sl38 Anne-Laure Feral Piersssens

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(1103) Issues of Mental Health during the Acute Phase of a Disaster in Japan— Lessons Learned sl39 Rimi Fuse;Akira Fuse; Hiroyuki Yokata; Torn Ishihara Oral Presentations—Triage Continuous Vital Signs Acquisition Improves Prehospital Trauma Triage sl39 Ay an Sen; Peter Hu; Colin Mackenzie; Sean Jordan; Yan Xiao; Richard Dutton; Thomas Scalea

Effect of Shift Duties and Patient Volume on Triage during Peace and Mass-Casualty Incidents sl39 Rakesh Kumar

A 12-Month Retrospective Review of Errors in Triaging and their Outcomes at the Emergency Department of Philippine General Hospital sl39 Scarlett Mia S. Tabunar; Erwin R. Cruzado

Development of Intuitive Administration Software to Assist the Triage Process during a Medical Disaster sl39 AlBadiRashid Poster Presentations—Triage (K107) Process Review using Lean Methodology at the Department of Emergency Medicine: Triage before Registration sl41 Gopalan Pokkan

(K108) Survey of Education and Experience in Triage Nursing sl41 Amir Mirhaghi; Hamed Sarani; Asghar Golafshani; Hassan Sharifi; Maryam Nesari; Masood Roudbari

(K109) Assessment of Knowledge of Hospital Triage among Nurses in the Emergency Department of Zahedan University Hospitals sl41 Amir Mirhagi; Hassan Sharifi; Masood Roudbari; Mitra Kakhki; Fatemeh Elahidoost; Fatemeh Sancholi; Maryam Kamrani; Samaneh Basavand (K110) Effects of Triage on Waiting Time for Health Services and Patient Satisfaction in an Iranian Emergency Department sl42 Hamid Reza Khankeh; Mohammad A. Hosseini; Mohsen Pazoki; Farah Azizi; Mehdi Rahgozar

(Kill) A Review of On-Scene Disaster Triage Schemes and Proposal for a Standardized Triage System sl42 Phillip L. Coule; E.B. Lerner; RichardB. Schwartz

(K112) Use of SALTTriage during a Simulated Mass-Casualty Incident sl42 E. Brooke Lerner; Richard Schwartz; Phillip Coule; Ronald Pirrallo

(K113) Determination of Field Providers' Opinions of SALTTriage sl43 E. Brooke Lerner; Richard Schwartz; Phillip Coule; Ronald Pirrallo

(K114) Use of the Visensia (Biosign) System Improves Emergency Department Trauma Triage: A Cluster Analysis with Outcomes sl43 Ayan Sen; Ilan Rubinfeld; OgoAzuh; Victor Coba; Autumn Broady;Joe P. Patton; Mathilda Horst

(K115) Application of Patient-Age Dependent Sacco Triage Method to Victims with Blunt Injuries sl43 Robert K. Waddell; Michael (Mick) Navin

(K116) An Objective Comparision of the START Triage Protocols and the Sacco Triage Method sl44 Robert K. Waddell; Michael (Mick) Navin

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(K117) The Okaloosa Experience—Using Evidenc-Based Triage to Save Lives sl44 Robert K Waddell; Michael (Mick) Navin

(K118) Development of a Simulation Model for Evaluation and Comparison of Different Triage Methods sl44 Kristina B. Lennquist Montdn; Amir Khorram-Manesh; Per Ortenwall

(K119) Priority Tags for Prioritizing Disaster Victims—The User's View sl45 Monica E. Rddestad; Helene Nilsson; Maaret Castre'n; Anders Riiter; Leif Svensson; Dan Gryth Oral Presentations—Disaster Reports Disaster Relief with Access to the Disaster Area is Denied—Lessons Learned from Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma) sl45 Rannveig B. Fjaer Cyclone Nargis: A Unique Disaster Response sl45 Fatimah Lateef Use of a Common, Inter-Sectoral Template for Observer Reports of a Crisis sl46 Per E. Kulling; Hans Andersson; Thomas Gell; Christina Nordensten; Susannah Sigurdsson Poster Presentations—Disaster Reports (C21) Bampoor Flooding: Case Review sl46 Amir Mirhaghi; Ebrahim Ebrahimi; Hamed Sarani (C22) Reassessment of the Bam Earthquake Five Years Onward sl46 Masoud Saghafi Nia; Homammad Hosein Kalandar Motamedi; Farzad Panahi

(C23) International Disaster Relief Operation of Chinese Medical Teams following the Earthquake in Indonesia in 2004 sl47 BeiJ. He; Toyohiko Kodama; Kazue Kawahara; Sayaka Oguri; Setsuko Umezaki; Koichi Shinchi

(C24) International Disaster Relief in the Hospital of the Affected Country sl47 Yosuke Takada; Mieko Ishii

(C2S) Experience from the Boumerdes Earthquake in Algeria sl48 Abdelghani Dekhili

(C26) Health Consequences of Flooding in China and Australia sl48 Weiivei Du; Gerard Fitzgerald; Xiang-Yu Hou; Michele Clark

(C27) Damages to Healthcare Facilities by the Earthquake in Pisco, Peru sl48 Celso Bambaren

(C28) Estimation of the Socioeconomic Impact of the Earthquake in Pisco on the Peruvian Health Sector sl48 Celso Bambaren

(C29) Aeromedical Evacuation during the Second Israel-Lebanon War: A Descriptive Study sl49 Dagan Schwartz; Avram Resheff; Alex Geftler; Aviram Weiss; Ophir Lavon; Erez Birenbaum

(C30) Bihar Calamity 2008—Impressions of a Non-Governmental Organization sl49 Vivek Chhabra; Ravikant Singh

(C31) OktoberfestTent Blowdown sl50 Johnnie Munn; Kelly Deal; Jeffrey Goodloe; Brandt King; Carolyn Synovitz; Charles E. Stewart

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(C32) Efficiency of Emergency Relief with Emphasis on the Transportation System—Case Study of Zone 6 in Tehran, Iran sl50 Saeed Givehchi

(C33) Injuries due to the Bam Earthquake in Iran sl50 Hamid R. Hatamabady

(C34) Cyclone Nargis—The Team Singapore Experience slSO ArifTyebally

(C3S) Pediatric Morbidity from Cyclone Nargis sl51 ArifTyebally Oral Presentations—Terrorist Attacks in High-Density Areas

New Concepts in Terrorism and Non-Conventional Global Threats: Framework for Health Response and Preparedness sl51 Alessandra Rossodivita

Willingnewss of US Emergency Medical Technicians to Respond to Terrorist Incidents sl51 David S. Markenson; Michael Reilly

Paramedics and Terrorism Response: Lessons Learned from 9/11 and the London Bombings sl52 Erin C. Smith; Frederick Burkle,Jr.; Frank L. Archer

Civil-Military Partnership in Disaster Drills: A Necessity in Developing Countries Affected by Terrorist Activity sl52 Lisa M. Hiltni; Robert B. Bristow; Dudley Per era; Anil Jannghe; Eeshara Kottegoda Vithana; Hillarie Cranmer Oral Presentations—Primary Care

Strategies to Strengthen the Integration of Primary Health Care and a Community-Based Approach to Health Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness sl53 Lynda Redwood-Campbell; Jonathan Abrahams

Primary Health Care and Disasters: Current State of the Literature, What is Known, Major Gaps, and Next Steps sl53 Lynda Redwood-Campbell; Jonathan Abrahams

Revitalizing Primary Health Care: What Does it Mean for Health Risk Reduction, Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery? s23 Lynda Redwood-Campbell; Jonathan Abrahams Keynotes

Displaced and Migrating Persons and Health Issues sl54 Manuel Carballo, PhD, MPH

Public Health Emergencies: The Common Thread sl54 Frederick Burklejr., MD, MPH Oral Presentations—CBRNE

Decontamination and Treatment of Injured Persons during Chemical Agent Incidents sl54 Bernd D. Domres; Normen Hecker; Bernd M. Schneider; Stefan Gromer; Tobias Kees Mass-Decontamination Gate for Hospitals: A Swiss Western State Model sl55 Mathieu Potin; Jean-Gabriel Clouet; Jean Demierre; Laurent Vallotton; Bertrand Yersin

Problems in Delivering Emergency Medical Care in Chemically Contaminated Environments sl55 David Baker; Virginia Murray

Improving the Realism of Radiological-Nuclear Training Exercises: Results of a New Study ... .sl56 Steven M. Becker

Designing a Medical Preparedness Model for Responding to Radiological Emergencies sl56 Ahmadreza Djalali; Vahid Hoseinijenab; Azadeh Hassani

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Preparedness Training for Prehospital Providers sl56 Karen Wanger; Daniel Kollek; Michelle Welsford

Medical Care within the Hot Zone: An Innovative Concept in Vienna during the EURO08 sl57 Andreas Ziegler

Fifteen Years since the Tokyo Subway Attack and Development of Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear, or Explosive Terrorist Countermeasures in Japan sl57 Tetsu Okumura

Responsibility and Methods for Detection of Chemicals and Radioactive Substances and Decontamination sl57 Andreas Ziegler

Effect of Physical Exertion in Level-C Chemical and Biological Protective Equipment on Physiological Funtion sl58 Christopher Stein; Andrew Makkink; Criag Vincent-Lambert

Comfort Level of Emergency Medical Services Providers in Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction Events: Impact of Training and Equipment sl58 David S. Markenson; Michael Reilly

The New Austrian Plan for Medical Diagnostics and Therapy after Radiation Accidents sl58 Andreas Ziegler

Care of the Chemically Dead: ATale of Two Bodies sl59 Antony Nocera; Peter Davis

Mangement of Mass Fatalities following a Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Attack sl59 David Baker; Kelly A. Jones; Shelly F. Mobbs; Ovnair Sepai; Dilys Morgan; Virginia Murray Poster Presentations—CBRNE

(D36) Effect of Wearing Chemical Protective Equipment on Placement of Airway Devices in a Cadaveric Model sl59 Kermit Huebner; Deanna Klesney; Dustin Tauferner

(D37) Effect of Wearing Chemical Protective Equipment on Gaining Intraosseous Access Using the Bone Injection Gun in a Cadaver sl60 Kermit Huebner; Deanna Klesney; Dustin Tauferner

(D38) A New Tool for Managing Casualties in the Emergency Department during a Radiation Disaster sl60 Carl W.Jarvis

(D39) Dirty Bomb Algorithm sl60 Sally L. Reynolds; Mary Margaret Crulcich; William Ruting; Glenn Sullivan

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(D40) Development of Medical Hazardous Material Database for a Chemical Disaster sl61 Soon-Joo Wang; Sang-Tae Jung

(D41) Somatic Pathology following Radiation Exposure: A Longitudinal Study sl61

Sergei S. Alehanin; Eugene V. Zheleznyakov Oral Presentations—Special Populations

Disaster Management Assessment of Small, Long-Term Care Nursing Homes in Taiwan sl61 Ban-Jwu Shift; Shin-Yi Chang; Shen-Wen Chien Palliative Care for Mass-Casualty Incidents with Scarce Resources sl62

Anne Wilkinson; Marianne Matzo; Maria Gatto Poster Presentations—Special Populations

(J104) Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities sl62 Steven Parrillo; Matthew Butler (J105) Effect of an Yogyakarta Earthquake on Pregnancy Outcomes based on Gestational Age sl62 Ehi D. Hapsari; Sri Hartini; Widyawati Purnomo; Rukmono Siswishanto; Sulchan Sofoewan; Sunartini Hapsara; Hiroya Matsuo

(J106) Unique Health Effects of Terrorist Attacks on the Pregnant Female sl63

Michael]. Reilly; David S. Markenson Oral Presentations—Burns

Preparing for Burn Disasters: Effectiveness of Statewide Training sl63 Rhonda L. Williams; Gary D. Jost; Sheila M. Knoefel; Ruth Wetta-Hall The Role of Burn Specialist Advisors in Large Burn Mass-Casualty Training Events sl64

Gary D. Jost; Janet Cusickjost Oral Presentations—Hot Topics

Experiences and Lessons from the Sichuan Earthquake sl64 Zhongmin Liu; Wei Ye;Jun Tan; Guixin Sun Application of Disaster Inventory Management System: Preliminary Results from China's Sichuan Earthquake sl64 Tzong-Luen Wang; Hang Chang Deploying an International Telemedicine System in a Major Active Earthquake Zone sl65 Peter F. Hu;John Spearman; Yan Xiao; Yan Kan; Jin Liu;Jing P. Wu; Steven Seebode; David Gagliano; Thomas Scalea; The International Group

The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks on 26 November 2008: Another Proxy War? sl65 Kaushik Chatterjee; Harry Ralte; Ravindra Jammihal; D. Jeyaprakash; Volga More; Nobhojit Roy

Public Health Safety Measures for Floods in Bihar, India sl66 D. Jeyaprakasah; Harry Ralte; Nobhojit Roy

Bihar Floods 2008: Benefits of Health Education and Training sl66 Vivek Chhabra; Ravikant Singh

Oral Presentations—Tsunami in South East Asia

Disaster Health: Where is the Information? sl67 Marvin L. Birnbaum; Roderico Ofrin

Barriers to Retrospective Analysis of Health Aspects of the Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004 sl67 Patrice A. Kohl; Marvin L. Birnbaum; Roderico Ofrin

Disasters and Remote Islands: Special Challenges Faced in Responding to the 2004 Tsunami sl67 Patrice A. Kohl; Marvin L. Birnbaum; Roderico Ofrin

Injury Reporting following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami sl68

Patrice A. Kohl; Marvin L. Birnbaum; Roderico Ofrin Oral Presentations—Migrating Populations

Assessing Quality through Measurement of Unmet Needs of Disaster Populations after the 2007 Southern California Wildfires sl68 Thomas D. Kirsch; Lauren M. Sauer; Yu-Hsiang Hsieh; Lauren E. Cooper; Jennifer L. Jenkins Epidemiological Review of the Risk Factors of Measles Outbreaks in Displaced Populations .. .sl68 Isidore K. Kouadio; Taro Kamigaki; Hitoshi Oshitani

Recognition and Knowledge of Tetramethylammonium Hydroxide of the Firest Responders and Emergency Department Staff sl69 Dong-Zong Hung; Shiang Kao

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