From the Department of Surgery (N.F.), Cooper University Hospital, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey; Department of Surgery (D.S.), The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Department of Surgery (J.S.O., E.R.H.), The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Department of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy (J.H.B.), The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; and Department of Surgery (R.T., T.M.S.), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Urology (P.D.), Malcom Randall VAMC, University of Florida College of Medicine; and Department of Surgery (S.C.B.), University of Florida Health Science Center, UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Florida; Department of Surgery (J.J.C.), MetroHealth Medical Center; and Division of Acute Care Surgery (M.L.M.), Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland; and Department of Surgery, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio; Department of Surgery (D.R.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (A.A.M.), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Surgery (K.N.), Cook County Trauma Unit of Stroger Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Surgery (L.B.P.), Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Surgery (T.C.F.), The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
Correspondence: Nicole Fox, MD, Trauma, Critical Care, Emergency Surgery, Cooper University Hospital, 1 Cooper Plaza, Camden, NJ 08103 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Submitted: July 7, 2014, Revised: August 4, 2014, Accepted: September 2, 2014.
DISCLOSURE: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
T.M.S. and T.C.F. should be noted as cosenior authors.
These practice management guidelines were presented at the 26th Annual Scientific Assembly of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, January 15-19, 2013, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
