About the Authors

Yosuke Matsumura

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Matsumura, Taka-aki Nakada

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan

Taka-aki Nakada

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Matsumura, Taka-aki Nakada

taka.nakada@nifty.com

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan

Ryuzo Abe

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan

Taku Oshima

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan

Shigeto Oda

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM TN. Performed the experiments: YM. Analyzed the data: YM TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM. Wrote the paper: YM TN RA TO SO.

helloThese authors contributed equally to this work.