Author
Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP Deputy Trauma Medical Director, Professor and Director of Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Fellowship Program, Senior Consultant in Surgery, Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Director of Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Hamad General Hospital and Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP is a member of the following medical societies: American Association of Blood Banks, American College of Healthcare Executives, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Coauthor(s)
Karl A Poterack, MD Consulting Staff, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
Karl A Poterack, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Society of Anesthesiologists
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Specialty Editor Board
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference
Disclosure: Received salary from Medscape for employment. for: Medscape.
Harold L Manning, MD Professor, Departments of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Physiology, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Harold L Manning, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Thoracic Society
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Chief Editor
David A Kaufman, MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Attending Physician, NYU-Langone Medical Center
David A Kaufman, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Disclosure: Serve(d) as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant or trustee for: Pulsion Medical Systems (now Getinge/Maquet)<br/>Serve(d) as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Pulsion Medical Systems (now Getinge/Maquet)<br/>Received research grant from: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Cheetah Medical (now Baxter); Fisher and Paykel.
Additional Contributors
Laurie Robin Grier, MD Medical Director of MICU, Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Fellowship Director for Critical Care Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center at Shreveport
Laurie Robin Grier, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.