About the Authors

Young Song

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Joseph Leem

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Mehul Dhanani

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

M. Dan McKirnan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yasuhiro Ichikawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Julie Braza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brown University and the Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, United States of America

Elizabeth O. Harrington

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brown University and the Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, United States of America

H. Kirk Hammond

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America

David M. Roth

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Hemal H. Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hepatel@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.