Author
Angela On-Kee Kwong, MD Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center
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Coauthor(s)
Jennifer M Provataris, MD Clinical Instructor, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital
Jennifer M Provataris, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Specialty Editor Board
Mary L Windle, PharmD Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference
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Chief Editor
Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA Professor of Otolaryngology, Dentistry, and Engineering, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, American Head and Neck Society
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Additional Contributors
Prajoy P Kadkade, MD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Disorders, Director of Otolaryngology, North Shore University Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital System
Prajoy P Kadkade, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, American College of Surgeons, Medical Society of the State of New York
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Acknowledgements
The author thanks Dr. Melissa Harper and Dr. Linda Liu for their wonderful patience and winning attitude in participating with this chapter, as well as Dr. Jennifer Provataris, for her infinite encouragement, tireless diligence, wisdom, and creativity in producing this chapter.
Medscape Drugs & Diseases also thanks Hamid R Djalilian, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center, for assistance with the video contribution to this article.
