About the Authors
- Ching-Tzu Huang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Tzu Huang, Horng-Chyuan Lin
Affiliations Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Horng-Chyuan Lin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Tzu Huang, Horng-Chyuan Lin
* E-mail: weichen@cgmh.org.tw (WCL); lin53424@ms13.hinet.net (HCL)
Affiliations Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Department of Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Shi-Chuan Chang
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Affiliations Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Chest Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Wei-Chen Lee
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* E-mail: weichen@cgmh.org.tw (WCL); lin53424@ms13.hinet.net (HCL)
Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CTH HCL SCC WCL. Performed the experiments: CTH HCL SCC WCL. Analyzed the data: CTH HCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTH HCL SCC WCL. Wrote the paper: CTH HCL SCC WCL.