Authors and Disclosures
Arif Hussain1*†, Gabriele Via2†, Lawrence Melniker3, Alberto Goffi4, Guido Tavazzi5,6, Luca Neri7, Tomas Villen8, Richard Hoppmann9, Francesco Mojoli10, Vicki Noble11, Laurent Zieleskiewicz12, Pablo Blanco13, Irene W. Y. Ma14, Mahathar Abd. Wahab15, Abdulmohsen Alsaawi16, Majid Al Salamah17, Martin Balik18, Diego Barca19, Karim Bendjelid20, Belaid Bouhemad21, Pablo Bravo-Figueroa22, Raoul Breitkreutz23, Juan Calderon24, Jim Connolly25, Roberto Copetti26, Francesco Corradi27, Anthony J. Dean8, Andre Denault29, Deepak Govil30, Carmela Graci31, Young-Rock Ha32, Laura Hurtado33, Toru Kameda34, Michael Lanspa35, Christian B. Laursen36, Francis Lee37, Rachel Liu38, Massimiliano Meineri39, Miguel Montorfano40, Peiman Nazerian41, Bret P. Nelson42, Aleksandar N. Neskovic43, Ramon Nogue44, Adi Osman45, Jose Pazeli46, Elmo Pereira-Junior47, Tomislav Petrovic48, Emanuele Pivetta49, Jan Poelaert50, Susanna Price51, Gregor Prosen52, Shalim Rodriguez53, Philippe Rola54, Colin Royse55,56, Yale Tung Chen57, Mike Wells58, Adrian Wong59, Wang Xiaoting60, Wang Zhen61 and Yaseen Arabi62
1Department of Cardiac Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland. 3New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, New York, NY, USA. 4Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 5Department of Clinical-Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, Unit of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. 6Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Istituto Di Ricovero E Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy. 7Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Consultant, King Fahad Specialist Hospital –Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. 8School of Medicine, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain. 9University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA. 10Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Università Degli Studi Di Pavia, Pavia, Italy. 11University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. 12Service D'Anesthésie Réanimation Hôpital Nord, APHM, Chemin des Bourrely, 13015 Marseille, France. 13Department of Teaching and Research, Hospital "Dr. Emilio Ferreyra", Necochea, Argentina. 14Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. 15Emergency and Trauma Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, 50586 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 16King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 17College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 18Dept of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. 19Médico Ecografista IADT, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 20Intensive Care Division, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. 21Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, C.H.U. Dijon and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, LNC UMR866, 21000 Dijon, France. 22PICU Hospital San Juan de Dios, Santiago, Chile. 23FOM University of Economy & Management, Frankfurt Campus, Frankfurt, Germany. 24Hospital General, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, De Zona 4 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 25Great North Trauma and Emergency Care Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 26Emergency Department, Latisana General Hospital, Latisana, Italy. 27Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. 28University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 29Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada. 30Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon, India. 31Ospedale Niguarda C' Grande, Milan, Italy. 32Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, Seoul, Korea. 33WINFOCUS Argentina BOD, Rosario, Argentina. 34Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Department of Emergency Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. 35Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA. 36Department of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. 37Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, Singapore. 38Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. 39Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. 40Department of Ultrasound & Doppler Hospital de Emergencias "Dr. Clemente Alvarez", Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. 41Department of Emergency Medicine, Careggi University Hospital, Firenze, Italia. 42Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. 43Clinical Hospital Zemun, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. 44Faculty of Medecine, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain. 45Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. 46FAME - Medicine School of Barbacena - MG-Brasil, Barbacena, Brazil. 47Arbo Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 48SAMU 93 - Hopital Avicenne, Paris, France. 49Citta Della Salute E Della Scienza Di Torino Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. 50Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy VUB, Univ Hospital Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. 51Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. 52Emergency Department, University Clinical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia. 53Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima, Peru. 54Santa Cabrini Hospital, Montreal, Canada. 55Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 56Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. 57Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain. 58Division of Emergency Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 59King's College Hospital, London, UK. 60Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China. 61The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China. 62King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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†Arif Hussain and Gabriele Via have contributed equally to this work
Authors' contributions
AH and GV contributed equally as authors in conceiving the contents, gathering the relevant material, preparing the manuscript and chairing the steering committee of the process, LM GRADEd the evidence and supervised the Delphi consensus process as methodologist and reviewed the manuscript, AG conceived the evidence presentation and edited, GT contributed to the cardiovascular and hematological sections, LN contributed to concepts of triaging, TV contributed to LUS, FC and FM contributed to the ventilation section, RH and VN contributed to the manuscript, and YA conceived the idea of this work, provided guidance and edited the manuscript. All the authors participated in the Delphi process, provided input for drafting recommendations and reviewed the manuscript.
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