About the Authors

Atsutoshi Tomino

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Masanobu Tsuda

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Ruri Aoki

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Yuka Kajita

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Masamitsu Hashiba

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Tsuguaki Terajima

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Hideki Kano

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Naoshi Takeyama

takeyama@aichi-med-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NT. Data curation: HK MT. Formal analysis: NT. Funding acquisition: NT MT. Investigation: AT NT. Methodology: AT NT YK MH RA TT MT HK. Project administration: NT. Resources: AT YK MH RA TT MT HK. Supervision: NT. Validation: AT NT. Visualization: AT NT. Writing – original draft: AT NT. Writing – review & editing: AT NT.