About the Authors

Cyril Francioli

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Xingyu Wang

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Roumen Parapanov

Affiliations Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland, Service of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Etienne Abdelnour

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jérôme Lugrin

Affiliation Service of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Fabrizio Gronchi

Affiliation Service of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean Perentes

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philippe Eckert

Affiliation Service of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hans-Beat Ris

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Lise Piquilloud

Affiliation Service of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Thorsten Krueger

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Krueger, Lucas Liaudet

Affiliation Service of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Lucas Liaudet

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Krueger, Lucas Liaudet

lucas.liaudet@chuv.ch

Affiliation Service of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LL TK LP. Data curation: CF XW RP JL. Formal analysis: CF XW RP FG JL. Funding acquisition: LL TK PE HBR. Investigation: CF XW RP JP EA JL. Methodology: LL TK FG XW RP. Project administration: LL TK HBR. Resources: LL TK PE HBR. Supervision: LL TK LP FG. Validation: TK LL. Visualization: CF XW RP. Writing – original draft: CF LL TK. Writing – review & editing: LL TK LP FG.