About the Authors

Sunil Sharma

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

sunil.sharma@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Robert Stansbury

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

Mayuri Mudgal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Priyanka Srinivasan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Edward Rojas

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

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Kassandra K. Olgers

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

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Scott Knollinger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Care, Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, West Virginia,

Bernardo J. Selim

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

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,

Sijin Wen

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

Competing Interests

SS declares receives grant and support for attending meetings or travel from West Virginia University (WVU) and National Science Foundation; is on speakers bureau of Zoll Respicardia Inc. Grant funding from INARI Medical Inc PEERLESS II trial, NIH RECOVER trial, rEST trial by Zoll Respicardia Inc.; and holds patents with WVU (invention numbers: US2023/0122156) that has been licensed by Premash Inc. SS is consultant for Premash Inc. Dr. Stansbury reports grants from NIH. Dr. Rojas and Dr. Mudgal have no conflicts to declare. Priyanka Srinivasan, Kassandra Olgers, Scott Knollinger, and Wen Sijin also have no conflicts to declare.