Kelly P O’Keefe, MD, FACEP
Director of USF Emergency Medicine Residency Program
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida USA

Praveen Aggarwal, MD, FICP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Tracy Sanson, MD, FACEP
Director of USF Global Emergency Medical Sciences
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida USA

LR Murmu, MBBS, MS
Professor of Emergency Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sanjeev Bhoi, MBBS, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Trauma
JPN Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Sagar Galwankar, MBBS, DNB, MPH
Assistant Professor of Global Health
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida USA

SECTION EDITORS

Health Policy & Management Blossom Yen-Ju Lin, PhD Associate Professor at Institute of Health Service Administration, China Medical University, China Pre Hospital Care Cem Oktay, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Akdeniz University School of Medicine Antalya, Turkey Pediatric Trauma DK Gupta, MS, MCH Head of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Basic Sciences DN Rao, PhD Professor of Biochemistry All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Disaster Health Dagan Schwartz, MD Head of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Educational Technology Fatimah Lateef, MD Director of Undergraduate Training and Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Cardiovascular Emergencies Gilbert Pochmalicki, MD Chief of Cardiology Department Provins’s Hospital, Provins, France Organized Medicine Gunnar Öhlén, MD Head of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden Shock Resuscitation Irshad Chaudry, PhD Editor in Chief of SHOCK Journal Director of the Center for Surgical Research University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA Neurotrauma Research Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, MD Director of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Australia Adult Surgical Trauma Lewis Flint, MD Editor In Chief of Selected Readings in General Surgery, American College of Surgeons, USA Neurological Resuscitation Luigi Beretta, MD Department of Neuroanesthesia and Intensive Care Vita-Salute S. Raffaele University, Milan, Italy Administrative Science MC Misra, MS Chief of JPN Apex Trauma Center AIIMS, New Delhi, India Global Security Sciences Marvin Birnbaum, PhD Editor in Chief of Pre-Hospital Care & Disaster Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Cellular Toxicity and Trauma Maskoor Choudhry, PhD Professor of Surgical Research, Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University Medical Center, USA Airway, Breathing & Ventilation Med. M. Ragaller, MD Vice Chairman Department Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Clinical Trials and Pharmacotherapeutics Michael Eddleston, PhD, MRCP Scottish Posions Information Bureau, Royal Infirmary of Edinburg and Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Edinburg, UK Occupational Emergencies Michael Greenberg, MD, MPH Professor & Chief of Medical Toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA Ultrasound Simulation Technology Michael Stone, MD Director of Emergency Ultrasound, SUNY Downstate University New York, USA Emergency Toxicology Paul Wax, MD Executive Director of American College of Medical Toxicology University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine, USA Translational Research Rao R. Ivatury MD Chief, Trauma, Critical Care & Emergency Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, USA Toxicological Risk Assessment Raymond Harbison, PhD Director of Center for Environmental and Occupational Risks Analysis & Management University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA Geriatric Emergencies Robert Woolard, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine Paul Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University, El Paso, Texas, USA Urgent Care SB Gupta, MD, FICP Head of Medical Intensive Care, Central Railway Hospital, Mumbai, India Orthopedic Trauma Shantanu Patil, MD Shiley Centre of Orthopedics Research and Education, Scripps Clinic, California, USA Nanotechnology Shyam Mohapatra, PhD Editor in Chief of Genetic Vaccines and Therapy, University of South Florida, USA

Trauma Critical Care Timothy Craig Hardcastle, MD Deputy Director Trauma Service Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Medical Critical Care Toshikazu Abe, MD Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, St. Luke's International Hospital, Japan Environmental Emergencies Vikas Kapil, DO, MPH, FACOEM National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA Pediatric Acute Care Vinod Paul, MD Professor of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Emergency Heart Rhythms Hans-Joachim Trappe, Dr. Med. Chairman of Cardiology University of Bochum, Hoelkeskampring, Herne, Germany. Infectious Emergencies Senaka Rajapakse MD, MRCP(UK) Head of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Surgical Acute Care Mark J. Seamon, MD Director of Trauma Research, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA Critical Hemodynamic Monitoring Maria Virginia Rodriguez Funes, MD, FACS Iberoamerican Cochrane Web Coordinator (El Salvador), San Salvador, El Salvador Shock Endocrinology Gary Lombardo, MD New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA Emergency Surgical Interventions Babak Sarani, MD, FACS Division of Trauma andl Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA Critical Sonology Science S. Peter Stawicki, MD Director of Research, Division of Critical Care, Trauma, and Burn, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA Burns Science Jay A. Yelon, DO, FACS, FCCM Chief of Trauma, Burns & Surgical Critical Care, New York Medical College/ Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD

AK Das, MD, PhD, FICP Director of Medicine and Chief Superintendent JIPMER, Puducherry, India Abdelouahab Bellou, MD, PhD Vice-President of the European Society for Emergency Medicine, Director of the Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Nancy, France Amit Gupta, MBBS, MS JPN Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India Ashish Goel, MD Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India Avishay Goldberg, MA, MPH, PhD Vice Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer - Sheva, Israel Behrooz Salehi, MD Department of Surgery Hospital of the Brothers of Charity, Vienna Bonnie Arquilla, MD Director of Disaster Medicine Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, NY, USA Bradley Peckler, MD Director of Medical Simulation University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Charles Paidas, MD Director and Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Chew Huck Chin, MRCS, MMed (A&E), MRCP (UK), Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Rd, Singapore Darren A Kilroy, FRCS, FCEM, M.Ed. Department of Emergency Medicine, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, UK Edward Oluwole Komolafe MBBS, FWACS, FICS Department of Surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State. Nigeria. Fabio Roccia, MD Department of Head, Neck and Maxillofacial Surgery, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy Gulbin Aygencel, MD Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director of Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center, University of South Florida, Tampa Florida, USA Heidi L. Estner, MD Department of Clinical Cardiology, German Heart Center, Munich, Germany Jeffrey Arnold, MD Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA Jean-Luc Truelle, MD Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Raymond-Poincaré, Garches, Paris, France John Heyworth, FRCS, FCEM, FIFEM President of the College of Emergency Medicine, UK Honorary Secretary, European Society for Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital Emergency Medicine, UK Jonathan Glauser, MD Chairman of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA José Eduardo Martinez, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Pontifical University Catholic, São Paulo, Brazil José Gilberto de Brito Henriques, MD, PhD. Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Laxminarayan Rajaram, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Lee Wallis, MD Chairman of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa Lohfa Bali Chirdan, MD Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria Lynne Moore, PhD Centre Hospitalier Affilié Uiversitaire De Québec, Pavillon Enfant-Jésus, Quebec City (QC), Canada Mabel Vasnaik, MD Director of Emergency Medicine, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India Marco Gemma, MD Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital S. Raffele Via Olgettina, Milan, Italy Michael Omori, MD Faculty of Emergency Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Miguel Antonio Moretti, MD, PhD Heart Institute at Medicine School, University of São Paulo, Brazil Nikhil Goyal, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA Nobojit Roy, MD Bhabha Atomic Research Center Hospital, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, India Paul MacLennan, PhD Center for Injury Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama Peng Yaguang, MD Department of Public Health Capital Medical University, China Prachee Sathe, MD Director of Critical Care, Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, India Pradeep Navsaria, MBChB, MMed, FCS Deputy Director of the Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre, Faculty of Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa Prakash Phulwani, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Windber Medical Center Emergency Medicine, Winber Pennsylvania, USA Preeti Jois Bilowich, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida at Gainesville, USA Pushpa Sharma, MD, PhD Director of Shock Research, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Maryland, USA Rajesh Mittal, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, NY, USA Rikard Fredriksson, MS Department of Research Engineering Autoliv Inc., Research, Vårgårda, Sweden Rui Moreno, MD, PhD Department of Intensive care, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Portugal SH Choi, MD, PhD Department of Emergency Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital Seoul, South Korea Sandeep Sahu, MD Faculty of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India Sanjay Shetty, MD Faculty of Emergency Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Scott Sasser, MD Director, International Programs Department of Emergency Medicine Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Sedat Yanturali, MD Associate professor of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey

Selman Uranues, MD, FACS Head of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz, Graz, Austria Sergio Zeme, MD Department of Neurosurgery University in Turin, Italy Senthil Kumaran, MD Head of Clinical Toxicology, Department of Accident, Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, Vinakaya Mission University, Salem Simone de Campos Vieira Abib, MD, PhD Department of Surgery Federal University of São Paulo – Brazil Stefaan Nijs, MD Director of Trauma Surgery, President Belgian Trauma Society, Board member European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, UZ Leuven, Belgium Stefano Quaranta, MD Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Alba and Bra Hospitals, Italy Susan Neuhaus, MBBS, PhD, FRACS Editor of Radiology in Surgical Practice The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Sundarakumar Sundarajan, MD Chairman of Emergency Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, India Syed Moied Ahmed, MD Anesthesiology & Critical Care JN Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh, India Tae Hyung Han, MD Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Thomas Mason, PhD Director for Center for Disaster Mitigation and Humanitarian Action, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Tomás Toranzo Cepeda, MD Vice President of the Spanish society for Emergency Medicine Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora, Spain US Raveendra, MD, DNB Chairman of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, K S Hegde Medical Academy Mangalore, India Ulkumen Rodoplu, MD Vice President, European Society for Emergency Medicine, Alsancak State Hospital İzmir, Turkey Wagih Mommtaz Ghnnam, MD Department of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Mansoura University, Egypt Xiang-Yu Hou, PhD Clinical Epidemiology at School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

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