From the Departments of Surgery (S.A.D., S.H.E., L.N.D.) and Orthopedic Surgery (B.R.M.), Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space and Life Science Directorate, Johnson Space Center (T.M., J.L., D.R.W.), and Wyle Laboratories (D.R.H.), Houston, Texas, and Vancouver General Hospital (A.W.K.), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Submitted for publication October 12, 2001.
Accepted for publication February 1, 2002.
This work was scheduled for presentation at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, which was canceled because of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Address for reprints: Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Detroit Receiving Hospital, 4201 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI 48201.