PRACTICAL QUESTIONS: The question was, and is, “Can hospitalized children, in a geographic area, have their continuing medical needs met when capacity in that geographic area to provide care is exceeded?” Events after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, generated significant information about pediatric care delivery during a disaster. In particular, Katrina ...

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the US Gulf Coast, causing catastrophic damage to communities and the medical infrastructure throughout the lower half of Mississippi. Substantial power outages, widespread communication failures, and a sustained medical surge of patients provided a unique challenge for the medical care delivery system in Mississippi for weeks after the hur...

An engineering lesson derived from the tragedies of the 9/11 Pentagon crash and Hurricane Katrina is the importance of resiliency in designing for multiple hazards. In the case of the Pentagon, the energy-absorbing capacity, redundancy, and continuity of the structural frame reduced the consequences of the unanticipated action. In Katrina, the hurricane protection system breached in forty-six p...

Constraints on Multiple Object Tracking in Williams Syndrome: How Atypical Development Can Inform Theories of Visual Processing Katrina Ferrara, James E. Hoffman, Kirsten O’Hearn & Barbara Landau To cite this article: Katrina Ferrara, James E. Hoffman, Kirsten O’Hearn & Barbara Landau (2016) Constraints on Multiple Object Tracking in Williams Syndrome: How Atypical Development Can Inform Theori...

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS: The question was, and is, “Can hospitalized children, in a geographic area, have their continuing medical needs met when capacity in that geographic area to provide care is exceeded?” Events after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, generated significant information about pediatric care delivery during a disaster. In particular, Katrina ...

This study is a qualitative grounded theory examination of the preand post-Katrina life of hurricane survivors. Forty heads of households with school-age children who lived in New orleans during Hurricane Katrina were interviewed 6 to 8 months apart. Findings suggest that low-income study participants had experienced multiple negative life events linked to their poverty status prior to Hurrican...