Abstracts Javier, a 20-year-old whose head and right arm protruded from the rubble. It took rescuers two hours to extricate him. Following extrication, he was stabilized for the transportation. (Luckily, Javier is alive.) At 15:00 hours, all of the private E.M.S. personnel were "invited" to leave the scene. The 386 injured and astonished victims were treated in various hospitals, 86 died. This only is a photograph and just as every reader may have felt, emergency specialists too were overcome

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... dispair-first because of the cowardly act, and second in the fact that inadequate training deepened the sense of failure. 030. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a new endotracheal tube introducer for difficult intubation. Background: In difficult intubations, a narrow stylet is easier to pass into the trachea than an endotracheal tube (ETT). Rather than passing an ETT over the stylet, we devised an inexpensive, disposable stylet that expands to allow the passage of an ETT through it. As the ETT passes down the device, it is guided into Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Vol.10, No.3 Suppl. https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.