From the Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

This study was presented at the 72nd annual meeting of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, September 19, 2013, in San Francisco, California.

United States Patent : US 7,113,814 B2; September 26, 2006 Ward KR, Barbee RW, Terner J, Ivatury RR, Hawkridge F: Tissue Interrogation Spectroscopy.

Address for reprints: Rao R. Ivatury, MD, Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1200 East Broad St, Richmond, VA 23298; email: [email protected].