Authors and Editors

Author: Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com

Previous contributing authors and editors:

Author: Mark A Mullins, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, UMASS Memorial Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Patrick Yorba, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center; William J Brady, MD, Program Director of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Ron Fuerst, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina College of Medicine; Director, Children's Emergency Center, Children's Hospital of Richland Memorial Hospital