About the Authors

Shijiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jie Sun

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xing Chen

Affiliation Department of Project Management, Jiangsu New Energy Development Company, Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group, Nanjing, China

Yingying Yu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, General Hospital of TISCO, TaiYuan, China

Cunming Liu

mingliu870@sohu.com

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

Xing Chen is employed by Jiangsu New Energy Development Company, Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CML. Performed the experiments: SJL YYY XL. Analyzed the data: SJL JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJL CML JS. Wrote the paper: SJL XC.