About the Authors

Yurie Obata

Contributed equally to this work with: Yurie Obata, Maki Mizogami

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Maki Mizogami

Contributed equally to this work with: Yurie Obata, Maki Mizogami

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Daniel Nyhan

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Dan E. Berkowitz

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jochen Steppan

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Viachaslau Barodka

vbarodk1@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VB. Data curation: YO MM VB. Formal analysis: YO MM VB. Investigation: YO MM VB. Methodology: YO MM VB. Project administration: VB. Resources: VB. Supervision: DN DB VB. Validation: YO MM. Visualization: YO MM VB. Writing – original draft: YO MM DN DB JS VB. Writing – review & editing: DN DB JS VB.