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Author: George Woodward, DO, FAAEM, Medical Director, St Johns County Fire Rescue: Medical Director, First Coast Technical Institute, Baptist Medical Center.Coauthor(s): Jeffrey S Smowton, MD, FACEP, FACP, Consulting Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Resources Group; Clinical Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine.
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; Jeter (Jay) Pritchard Taylor III, MD, Vice-Chief, Compliance Officer, Attending Physician Emergency Medicine Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, University of South Carolina.
Medically Reviewed by Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com
Last Editorial Review: 4/30/2007
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