Volker Wenzel, MD, 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. He is the author of more than 330 peer-reviewed articles, editor of the emergency medicine section of the German specialist journal “Die Anästhesiologie” and Courtesy Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA.