About the Authors

Yi-Wen Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Chang, Chao-Shun Lin

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chia-Yi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Chun Chou

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chun-Chieh Yeh

Affiliations Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chaur-Jong Hu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chih-Jen Hung

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chao-Shun Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Chang, Chao-Shun Lin

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ta-Liang Chen

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Chang Liao

ccliao@tmu.edu.tw, jacky48863027@yahoo.com.tw

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Shuan Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YWC CCL. Data curation: TLC CCL. Formal analysis: CCL. Funding acquisition: TLC CCL. Investigation: YWC YCC CCY C. Hu C. Hung CSL TLC CCL. Methodology: YWC YCC CCY C. Hu C. Hung CSL TLC CCL. Project administration: YWC CSL TLC CCL. Resources: YWC CSL TLC CCL. Software: TLC CCL. Supervision: TLC CCL. Validation: TLC CCL. Visualization: YWC YCC CCY C. Hu C. Hung CSL TLC CCL. Writing – original draft: YWC YCC CCY C. Hu C. Hung CSL TLC CCL. Writing – review & editing: YWC YCC CCY C. Hu C. Hung CSL TLC CCL.