About the Authors

Jennifer L. Larson-Casey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Chao He

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Pulin Che

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Meimei Wang

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Guoqiang Cai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Young-il Kim

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Mustapha El Hamdaoui

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Rafael Grytz

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Qiang Ding

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

‡ Co-senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

A. Brent Carter

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bcarter1@uab.edu

‡ Co-senior authors.

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Birmingham Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.