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Denise Rhoney, PhaRm.D., FCCP, FCCM, is Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. W. FRank Peacock, M.D., is Vice Chair, Institute of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. Address correspondence to Dr. Rhoney at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, 259 Mack Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201 ([email protected]). Dr. Rhoney has served on the scientific advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus of or received research grants from PDL BioPharma (now EKR Therapeutics), Astellas Pharma Inc., UCB Pharma Inc., and The Medicines Company. Dr. Peacock has served on the scientific advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus of or received research grants from Abbott, BAS, Beckman-Coulter, Biosite, Brahms, CHF Solutions, Heartscape, Inovise, Inverness, Otsuka, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, PDL BioPharma (now EKR Therapeutics), Scios, The Medicines Company, and Vital Sensors. Part 1 of this article appeared in the August 1, 2009, issue.