From the Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University (M.J.S.), St. Louis, Missouri, Departments of Anesthesiology (A.G.) and Medicine (H.L.C.), Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland (L.N.), Baltimore, Maryland, Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital (M.L.), Providence, Rhode Island, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado (E.A.), Denver, Colorado, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (M.P.F.), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center (N.M.), Durham, North Carolina, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University Medical Center (R.G.P.), Palo Alto, and Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (M.M.S.), Los Angeles, California.
Submitted for publication April 29, 2003.
Accepted for publication May 15, 2003.
Supported by Ortho Biotech Products, L.P.
Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, January 15–18, 2003, Ft. Myers, Florida.
Address for reprints: Marc J. Shapiro, MD, FACS, FCCM, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, 3635 Vista at Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110-0250; email: [email protected]
