About the Authors

Saud Alawad

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Nawaf Al-Saeed

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Ahmad Jarrar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, 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, United States of America

Sijin Wen

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, West Virginia School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Sharma declares receives grant and support for attending meetings or travel from West Virginia University (WVU) and National Science Foundation (NSF); SS has been on the speakers bureau of Zoll Respicardia Inc.(Until Nov 2024). SS has received Grant funding from INARI Medical Inc PEERLESS II trial, NIH RECOVER trial, rEST trial by Zoll Respicardia Inc. Dr. Alawad, Dr. Al-Saeed and Dr. Jarrar have no conflicts to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.