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on January 10, 2008

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Submitted on December 5, 2007
Accepted on December 6, 2007

Advances in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine 2007

Stephan A. Mayer MD, FCCM^* and Stefan Schwab MD

From the Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (S.A.M.); and the Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (S.S.).

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sam14{at}columbia.edu.

Key words: critical care • emergency medicine