Authors and Editors

Author: John Mersch, MD, FAAP

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: Robert W Shaffer, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Brian W Cook, MD, FACEP, Medical Director of Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Saline Community Hospital; Site Coordinator, Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, University of Michigan.

Editors: Mitchell J Goldman, DO, FAAP, FAAEM, Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, St Vincent Emergency Physicians, Inc; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Quinn, MD, Director of Research Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine University of California at San Francisco Medical Center.