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Affiliations: From the Department of Internal Medicine (Dr DePew), the Department of Emergency Medicine (Dr Gossman), and the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (Dr Morrow), Creighton University Medical Center. Financial /nonfi nancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST that no potential confl icts of interest exist with any companies organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article. Correspondence to : Lee E. Morrow, MD, FCCP, 601 N 30th St, Ste 3820, Omaha, NE 68131; e-mail: [email protected] © 2010 American College of Chest Physicians. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians ( http :// www . chestpubs . org site misc reprints . xhtml ). DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-1316