About the Authors

Ed B. G. Barnard

Affiliations Air Force Trauma and Resuscitation Research Program, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, United Kingdom, Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (Research & Academia), Medical Directorate, Birmingham, United Kingdom

James E. Manning

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason E. Smith

Affiliations Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (Research & Academia), Medical Directorate, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Jason M. Rall

Affiliation Air Force Trauma and Resuscitation Research Program, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer M. Cox

Affiliation Air Force Trauma and Resuscitation Research Program, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, United States of America

James D. Ross

rosja@ohsu.edu

Affiliations Air Force Trauma and Resuscitation Research Program, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, United States of America, Division of Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JM has co-founded a medical device company (Resusitech, Inc.) with a colleague to develop medical devices for resuscitation, including newer devices for SAAP. Resusitech has submitted provisional patent applications for newer SAAP technologies. However, none of these newer SAAP technologies were tested in the research study that yielded this present manuscript. JM has delivered approximately 30 invited lectures on SAAP for resuscitation in medical and traumatic cardiac arrest. For several of these lectures, travel costs were fully or partially reimbursed by the inviting organization or the University of North Carolina.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JDR JEM. Data curation: JDR EBGB JMR JMC. Formal analysis: JDR JEM EBGB. Funding acquisition: JDR JEM. Investigation: JDR JEM EBGB JES JMR JMC. Methodology: JDR JEM EBGB JMR JMC. Project administration: JDR JMC. Resources: JDR. Software: JDR JMR. Supervision: JDR. Validation: JDR. Visualization: JDR JEM EBGB. Writing – original draft: EBGB. Writing – review & editing: EBGB JEM JES JMR JMC JDR.