About the Authors

Chou-Chin Lan

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chung-Kan Peng

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shih-En Tang

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kun-Lun Huang

chinpyng@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CPW); kun@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (KLH)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chin-Pyng Wu

chinpyng@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CPW); kun@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (KLH)

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Li-Shin Hospital, Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CCL KLH CPW. Data curation: CCL CKP KLH. Formal analysis: CCL CKP. Funding acquisition: CCL CPW. Investigation: CCL CKP KLH. Methodology: CCL KLH CPW. Project administration: KLH CPW. Resources: CCL KLH. Software: CCL CKP SET. Supervision: KLH CPW. Validation: KLH CPW. Visualization: CCL KLH CPW. Writing – original draft: CCL. Writing – review & editing: KLH CPW.