About the Authors

Raymond Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Raymond Chang, Khaled Mossad Elhusseiny

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chang@meridianmedical.org

Affiliation Institute of East-West Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Khaled Mossad Elhusseiny

Contributed equally to this work with: Raymond Chang, Khaled Mossad Elhusseiny

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Yu-Chang Yeh

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Zen Sun

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of East-West Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Anesthesia, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.