About the Authors

Manu Ayyan S

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Arvind Kumar Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Hemantkumar S. Patadia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Parul Institute of Paramedical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Shreyas Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Parul Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Saurabh Saigal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Jeyaraj Durai Pandian

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Thejus Varghese

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Ankur Joshi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Meenakshi Sharma

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

smeenakshi@hotmail.com

Affiliation Division of NCD, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

India-EMS Group Authorship

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The funder has appointed the study monitor MS [Scientist G ,Division of NCD , ICMR, New Delhi], under whose guidance the research will be conducted. The funder will not be involved in data collection, analysis and interpretation of the results. The study monitor and coordinator will however oversee that the timelines are met and study is being conducted as per protocol and following the ethical standards. This does not alter authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.