From the Department of Emergency Medicine (F.W.G., R.W., S.T.T., C.J.K., J.R.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida; Division of Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (S.B.), University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida; University of Florida College of Medicine (S.S., T.R.), Gainesville; Florida; Department of Emergency Medicine (J.D.K.), State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York; Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine (S.D.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida; and Department of Emergency Medicine (A.E.J.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Submitted: October 13, 2015, Revised: March 22, 2016, Accepted: April 12, 2016, Published online: July 8, 2016.
Study site: All patients were enrolled at UF Health Jacksonville, 655 West 8th St, Jacksonville, FL 32209.
Data from this study were used in an abstract presentation at the 44th Critical Care Congress in Phoenix, Arizona in January, 2015.
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Address for reprints: Faheem W. Guirgis, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, UF Health Jacksonville, 655 West 8th St, Jacksonville, FL 32209; email: [email protected].