About the Authors

Charles J. Gerardo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

charles.gerardo@duke.edu

Affiliations Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joao R. N. Vissoci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Leonardo P. de Oliveira

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Health and Biological Sciences, UniCesumar, Maringa, Paraná, Brazil

Victoria E. Anderson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CPC Clinical Research, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Eugenia Quackenbush

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Brandon Lewis

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

S. Rutherfoord Rose

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Spencer Greene

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric A. Toschlog

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathan P. Charlton

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Michael E. Mullins

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard Schwartz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine and Hospital Services, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

David Denning

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Marshall Health, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Kapil Sharma

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Kurt Kleinschmidt

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Sean P. Bush

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Nicklaus P. Brandehoff

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco Fresno, Fresno, California, United States of America

Eric J. Lavonas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Rose reports speakers bureau fees from BTG International Inc outside the submitted work. Dr. Greene reports receiving consulting fees and honoraria from BTGInternational Inc outside the submitted work. Drs. Gerardo, Charlton, Mullins, Lavonas and Kleinschmidt and Ms. Anderson report receiving prior study-related grants from BTG International Inc. The parent studies from which data were derived, were funded by BTG International Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.