{"title":"Blunt Massive Pancreatic Trauma","authors":"O. Sharma","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00029459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00029459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131578400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of an Aeromedical Service for the Transport of Patients on Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps in the Regionalization of Medical Care","authors":"F. Baker, M. Juric","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X0002923X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X0002923X","url":null,"abstract":"On 1 March 1987 the University of Chicago initiated transport of patients on intra-aortic balloon pumps using a hospital-based rotorcraft. In the subsequent eight months, 8 patients have been transported. The indications, complications, and survival of this patient group will be discussed. The selection and training of professional staff necessary to accomplish this mission will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131286494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role and Responsibility of a Poison Center in Chemical Accidents","authors":"P. Kulling","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00029770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00029770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124160593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disasterous Alert: Katastroflarm","authors":"K. Norberg, Sven-Erik Gornitzka","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00029733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00029733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124270791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PDM volume 3 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1049023x00028946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00028946","url":null,"abstract":"s to be presented at the Fifth World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May, 1987.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123503578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Head Injury Record Form for an Accident Unit","authors":"A. Marsden, D. Price","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00028715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00028715","url":null,"abstract":"In 1981 we described the introduction and development of a coma scale for use in Head Injured patients. The scale has become adopted for routine use in the Accident and Emergency Unit at Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, and at other centers, for example the Emergency Department at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary finds the scale more sensitive than its own Glasgow Coma Scale in monitoring the course of accident victims.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127035753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earthquake in El Salvador","authors":"C. D. V. Goyet","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00029393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00029393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127250339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Military-Civilian Collaboration for Disaster Medicine","authors":"W. R. Gemma","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032544","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the world, experience is growing in the development of plans for military-civilian collaboration in disaster preparedness. This involves the complex problems associated with the coordination of various components of military and civilian Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems and organizational differences between countries. EMS are dependent on relationships between hospitals, police-fire-ambulance services, and municipal, county and state governments. In an emergency, their integration is accomplished in: (1) detection and assessment; (2) call for ambulance and hospital; (3) organization; and (4) emergency medical treatments.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127407726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Countermeasures Against Earthquake Disasters in Relation to Medical Treatment in Japan","authors":"Y. Osawa","doi":"10.1017/s1049023x00028867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00028867","url":null,"abstract":"Planning of earthquake disaster prevention is of great concern in Japan, since we have frequently been subjected to serious damage due to severe earthquakes. The medical treatment after a disastrous earthquake is undoubtedly one of the most serious items to be considered. The countermeasures against earthquake disasters, in relation to medical treatment, may be divided into two categories; a) prevention of damage to medical facilities and instruments, b) planning for emergency and disaster medicine. This paper introduces the countermeasures against earthquake disasters in relation to medical treatment in Japan.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"128 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129960915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multisystem Trauma: Relevance of the Injury Pattern to the Prognosis","authors":"G. Singbartl","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00028983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00028983","url":null,"abstract":"Although road accidents account for about 17% of hospital emergencies, they are the third commonest cause of death. Polytrauma is the main cause of death below the age of 40 years. Legislative action and safety measures (i.e. speed restriction, safety belts, safety helmets) and improvement in the hospital emergency care system in Germany resulted in a continuous reduction in road accident victims from about 19,000 in 1979 to about 12,000 in 1983. Additionally, the fall in personal injury resulted in savings of about 7,900 DM (US $3,000) in cases of minor injury, 79,000 DM (30,000 US$) in cases of severe injury and about 685,000 DM (280,000 US$) in cases where lives were saved.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132180121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}