Volker Wenzel, M.D., MSc., FERC is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at Medical Campus Lake Constance - Friedrichshafen and Tettnang, Germany; and Courtesy Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States. He has more than 25 years of experience in emergency medicine and authored more than 330 peer-reviewed articles; he also serves as emergency medicine section editor of the specialist journal “Die Anaesthesiologie”.