Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin (Drs Versluijs, Fatehi, Gonzalez, Reichel, Laverty, and Ring); and Department of Trauma Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (Dr Versluijs).
Correspondence: David Ring, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, 1701 Trinity St, Austin, TX 78712 ([email protected]).
This study received approval from the Institutional Review Board of the University of Texas at Austin. This study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. This study has been carried out in accordance with relevant regulations of the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
This study was performed at Dell Medical School, The University of Texas.
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