About the Authors

Ravindranath Tiruvoipati

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

travindranath@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Frankston Hospital, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

John Botha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Frankston Hospital, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jason Fletcher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Himangsu Gangopadhyay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

Mainak Majumdar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East, Victoria, Australia

Sanjiv Vij

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dandenong Hospital, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Eldho Paul

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Clinical Haematology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

David Pilcher

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group

Memebership of ANZICS clinical trials group committee may be found in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.