Author
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.
Coauthor(s)
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
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Specialty Editor Board
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference
Disclosure: Received salary from Medscape for employment. for: Medscape.
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 Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, Phi Beta Kappa, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Chief Editor
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
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Additional Contributors
Francis Counselman, MD, FACEP Chair, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Francis Counselman, MD, FACEP is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American College of Emergency Physicians, Norfolk Academy of Medicine, Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Acknowledgements
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.
