From the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care (K.I., B.C.B., L.L., P.T., D.P., D.J.G., D.D.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and Division of Trauma and Critical Care (A.S.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Submitted for publication December 17, 2009.
Accepted for publication February 26, 2010.
Presented as a poster at 68th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, October 1-3, 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Address for reprints: Kenji Inaba, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Southern California, 1200 North State Street, Room CL5100, Los Angeles, CA 90033-4525; email: [email protected].
