These co-chairs selected the initial protocols based on
the disorder’s emergency state, the presence of treatment
decisions that can affect outcomes, and the prevalence of
such disorders as the first group of ENLS topics. The
dichotomy of a neurointensivist and emergency physician
was kept in the overall organization, whereby two such
physicians were selected to co-chair the development of
each topic (Table 1). The co-chairs were selected for their
reputations as educators and their specialty, with the
requirement that they did not previously know each other
well or at all and were preferably from different institutions,
to avoid ‘‘group-think’’ or other engrained practices