About the Authors

Jorge Luis Vélez-Páez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Centro de Investigación Clínica en Medicina Crítica, Hospital Pablo Arturo Suárez, Quito, Ecuador

Pedro Legua

Contributed equally to this work with: Pedro Legua, Jorge Pérez-Galarza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Pablo Vélez-Páez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Clínica en Medicina Crítica, Quito, Ecuador, Unidad de Terapia Intensiva, Hospital General IESS de Ibarra, Imbabura, Ecuador

Estefanía Irigoyen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Investigación Clínica en Medicina Crítica, Hospital Pablo Arturo Suárez, Quito, Ecuador

Henry Andrade

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unidad de Terapia Intensiva, Hospital General IESS de Ibarra, Imbabura, Ecuador

Andrea Jara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unidad de Emergencia, Hospital Básico de Machachi, Pichincha, Ecuador

Fernanda López

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Instituto de Posgrado Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Jorge Pérez-Galarza

Contributed equally to this work with: Pedro Legua, Jorge Pérez-Galarza

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Lucy Baldeón

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lybaldeon@uce.edu.ec

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.