The Journal of Emergency Medicine

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Stephen R. Hayden, MD, University of California

FOUNDING EDITOR: Peter Rosen, MD, Harvard University
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: George Sternbach, MD, Stanford University
Gary Vilke, MD, University of California San Diego Medical Center, Michael Witting, MD, MS, University of Maryland,
Robert Rodriguez, MD, University of California San Francisco, Dale P. Woolridge, MD, PhD, University of Arizona,
David E. Slattery, MD, University of Nevada, Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Medical School
TECHNICAL REVIEW EDITOR: Martha C. Martell, MS, University of California
EDITORIAL MANAGER: Terrie Best, University of California
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW EDITOR: Marina Hayden, RN, University of California
SECTION EDITORS Emergency Radiology Pharmacology in Emergency Computers in Emergency
J. Christian Fox, MD Medicine Medicine
Original Contributions
Orange, CA Binh Ly, MD James Killeen, MD
Jacob Ufberg, MD
Critical Care San Diego, CA San Diego, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Joseph Varon, MD Public Health in Emergency
Sean O. Henderson, MD Trauma Reports
Houston, TX Medicine
Los Angeles, CA Eric Legome, MD
Jarrod Mosier, MD Jonathan Olshaker, MD
Clinical Communications: New York, NY
Tucson, AZ Boston, MA
Adults Kaushal Shah, MD
Sports Medicine Violence: Recognition,
Erik D. Barton, MD, MS Forest Hills, NY
Prentice Steffen, MD Management, and Prevention
Salt Lake City, UT
Santa Cruz, CA Harvard Case Presentations Ellen H. Taliaferro, MD
Thomas O. Stair, MD
Wound Care David F. M. Brown, MD San Francisco, CA
Boston, MA
Davut J. Savaser, MD Eric S. Nadel, MD Ethics
Clinical Communications: Pediatrics
San Diego, CA Boston, MA John Jesus, MD
Dale P. Woolridge, MD, PhD
Psychiatric Emergencies Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Newark, DE
Tucson, AZ
Michael Wilson, MD, PhD Medicine Humanities and Medicine
Paul Ishimine, MD
San Diego, CA Mark Silverberg, MD Richard M. Ratzan, MD
San Diego, CA
Rachel Lipson Glick, MD Brooklyn, NY West Hartford, CT
Clinical Communications:
Ann Arbor, MI AAEM Clinical Practice
OB/GYN Lynn Roppolo, MD
Neurological Emergencies Gary Vilke, MD
Colleen Campbell, MD Dallas, TX
Kama Guluma, MD San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA Alicia Minns, MD
San Diego, CA Medical Student Forum
Selected Topics: San Diego, CA
Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH
Toxicology
David H. Adler, MD, MPH Medical Classics
Kenneth Kulig, MD Orange, CA
Rochester, NY George Sternbach, MD
Denver, CO Brief Reports
Barry Simon, MD Stanford, CA
Richard F. Clark, MD Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH
Oakland, CA Education
San Diego, CA Boston, MA
Online Contributions Dick Kuo, MD
Prehospital Care Chad Kessler, MD, MHPE
Coordinated by: Houston, TX
Colleen Buono, MD Durham, NC
J. Christian Fox, MD Leslie Oyama, MD
San Diego, CA Clinical Reviews in Emergency
San Diego, CA
The Difficult Airway San Diego, CA Medicine
Best Clinical Practice
Daniel P. Davis, MD Administration of Emergency Joseph P. Martinez, MD,
Amal Mattu, MD
San Diego, CA Medicine/ED Operations FACEP, FAAEM
Edgewater, MD
Aeromedical Emergencies Shoma Desai, MD Baltimore, MD
Techniques and Procedures
Christian Sloane, MD Los Angeles, CA Salvatore Vicario, MD
George Sternbach, MD
San Diego, CA Christian Tomaszewski, MD, MS, MBA Louisville, KY
Stanford, CA
Disaster Medicine JEM Correspondence
Technical Tips San Diego, CA
Irving Jacoby, MD Michael Wilson, MD, PhD
Gary M. Vilke, MD Evidence-Based Medicine
San Diego, CA San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA Sam Keim, MD
Cardiology Commentary Book and Other Media Reviews
Richard Harrigan, MD Tucson, AZ
Theodore Chan, MD Edward J. Otten, MD
Philadelphia, PA International Emergency Medicine
San Diego, CA Cincinnati, OH
Jacob Ufberg, MD Jeffrey Arnold, MD
William Brady, MD Michael Burg, MD
Philadelphia, PA
Charlottesville, VA Salinas, CA Clovis, CA
Clinical Laboratory in Emergency
Richard Harrigan, MD Christopher Lee, MD
Medicine Abstracts
Philadelphia, PA Stony Brook, NY
David A. Jerrard, MD Jennie Buchanan, MD
Baltimore, MD Denver, CO
STATISTICAL EDITORS: Edward M. Castillo, PhD, MPH, San Diego, CA
Laurence S. Magder, PhD, MPH, Baltimore, MD
EDITORIAL BOARD
Tim Allen, MD Raymond Fish, MD, PhD Vincent Markovchick, MD Thomas Purcell, MD
Quebec, Canada Urbana, IL Denver, CO Bakersfield, CA
Robert Barish, MD Teodoro J. Herbosa, MD James Mathews, MD Jedd Roe, MD
Manila, The Philippines Chicago, IL
Shreveport, LA John W. McGill, MD Birmingham, AL
Howard Bessen, MD Kendall Ho, MD
Vancouver, British Columbia, Minneapolis, MN Arthur Sanders, MD
Rolling Hills Estates, CA Canada Robert M. McNamara, MD Tucson, AZ
Barry Brenner, MD, PhD Grant Innes, MD Philadelphia, PA Stuart Swadron, MD
Cleveland, OH Vancouver, British Columbia, Ernest E. Moore, MD Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Danzl, MD Canada Denver, CO
Edward Newton, MD John Vinen, MD
Louisville, KY Gene Kallsen, MD
Fresno, CA Los Angeles, CA St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia
Peter Doris, MD Charles Perrott, MD Richard Wolfe, MD
Alois F. Karlbauer, MD
Downers Grove, IL Glenview, IL Boston, MA
Salzburg, Austria
James Ducharme, MD Martin S. Kohn, MD Charles Pollack, Jr., MD Allan B. Wolfson, MD
St. John, New Brunswick, Canada Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA