Authors and Editors

Medical Author: Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FAAEM

Medical Editors: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors:

Author: Shabir Bhimji, MD, Consulting Surgeon, Cardiac Surgical Associates of West Texas.

Coauthor(s): Rita A Sweeney, MD, MPH, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center; Susan Stone, MD, Assistant Program Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center; 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; Jonathan Adler, MD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital.