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Blood Clot in the Legs (cont.)

Authors and Editors

Author: John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: Shabir Bhimji, MD, Consulting Surgeon, Cardiac Surgical Associates of West Texas.

Coauthor(s): Scott G Weiner, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Jonathan L Burstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Director and Chair, Section of Disaster Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Kathryn L Hale, MS, PA-C, Medical Writer, eMedicine.com, Inc.

Editors: Alan D Forker, MD, Program Director of Cardiovascular Fellowship, Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Steven L Bernstein, MD, Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine.

References: www.preventdvt.org, "DVT Overview," October 2006. www.emedicine.com, "Pulmonary Embolism," June 7, 2006.


Last Editorial Review: 5/1/2008


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