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William S Ernoehazy, Jr, MD, FACEP Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Flagler Hospital; Attending Physician, Baptist Emergency at Town Center

William S Ernoehazy, Jr, MD, FACEP is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Heather Murphy-Lavoie, MD, FAAEM, FACEP Associate Professor, Assistant Residency Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, Associate Program Director, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship, Section of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans; Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine

Heather Murphy-Lavoie, MD, FAAEM, FACEP is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Emergency Medicine, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, American College of Emergency Physicians

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Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference

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Robert Harwood, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM Senior Physcian, Department of Emergency Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

Robert Harwood, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Association, Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

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Gil Z Shlamovitz, MD, FACEP Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California; Chief Medical Information Officer, Keck Medicine of USC

Gil Z Shlamovitz, MD, FACEP is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Informatics Association

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Francis Counselman, MD, FACEP Chair, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School

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The authors and editors of Medscape Reference gratefully acknowledge the contributions of previous editor, Charles V Pollack Jr, MD, to the development and writing of this article.

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