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Abstract

Dr. Weiss is a Senior Lecturer in Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since 2002, Dr. Weiss has been an instructor in advanced trauma life support courses, as well as a member of the Committee on the Management of the Severe Head Injury Patient for the Israeli National Council for Surgery Anesthetics and Intensive Care in the Ministry of Health. He has lectured on topics such as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and blast injury and has authored papers dealing with the effects of terrorism, such as “Blast lung injury from an explosion on a civilian bus” [[1]Pizov R. Oppenheim-Eden A. Matot I. et al.Blast lung injury from an explosion on a civilian bus.Chest. 1999; 115: 165-172Crossref PubMed Scopus (111) Google Scholar] and “Multiple casualty terror events: the anesthesiologist's perspective” in Anesthesia and Analgesia. He also has written on tension pneumoperitoneum after blast injury for the Journal of Trauma, and was a coauthor of a chapter on acute lung injuries among survivors from suicide bomb attacks.Micha Y. Shamir, M.D., is an Instructor in Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has written extensively about the anesthesiologist's perspective on trauma patients in papers such as “Multiple casualty terror events: the anesthesiologist's perspective” in Anesthesia and Analgesia and “The Israeli experience:conventional terrorism and critical care” in Critical Care as well as papers on suicide bombings. He has also lectured on such subjects as hemorrhagic shock, airway management in trauma, and injury by explosive device.These two editors have put together an outstanding issue, which can be used to keep those in our specialty informed of the latest developments in treatment of the trauma patient. Dr. Weiss is a Senior Lecturer in Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since 2002, Dr. Weiss has been an instructor in advanced trauma life support courses, as well as a member of the Committee on the Management of the Severe Head Injury Patient for the Israeli National Council for Surgery Anesthetics and Intensive Care in the Ministry of Health. He has lectured on topics such as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and blast injury and has authored papers dealing with the effects of terrorism, such as “Blast lung injury from an explosion on a civilian bus” [[1]Pizov R. Oppenheim-Eden A. Matot I. et al.Blast lung injury from an explosion on a civilian bus.Chest. 1999; 115: 165-172Crossref PubMed Scopus (111) Google Scholar] and “Multiple casualty terror events: the anesthesiologist's perspective” in Anesthesia and Analgesia. He also has written on tension pneumoperitoneum after blast injury for the Journal of Trauma, and was a coauthor of a chapter on acute lung injuries among survivors from suicide bomb attacks. Micha Y. Shamir, M.D., is an Instructor in Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has written extensively about the anesthesiologist's perspective on trauma patients in papers such as “Multiple casualty terror events: the anesthesiologist's perspective” in Anesthesia and Analgesia and “The Israeli experience:conventional terrorism and critical care” in Critical Care as well as papers on suicide bombings. He has also lectured on such subjects as hemorrhagic shock, airway management in trauma, and injury by explosive device. These two editors have put together an outstanding issue, which can be used to keep those in our specialty informed of the latest developments in treatment of the trauma patient.