About the Authors

Michaël Sage

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Mathieu Nadeau

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Claudia Forand-Choinière

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Julien Mousseau

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Jonathan Vandamme

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Claire Berger

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Jean-Sébastien Tremblay-Roy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Renaud Tissier

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inserm, Unité 955, Equipe 03, École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France

Philippe Micheau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Étienne Fortin-Pellerin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

etienne.fortin-pellerin@usherbrooke.ca

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

Philippe Micheau is co-inventor on a patent related to the ventilator prototype used for this study (Apparatus for conducting total liquid ventilation with control of residual volume and ventilation cycle profile, US 7,726,311 B2, EP 1 424 090 B1, CA 2,451,261). Philippe Micheau and Mathieu Nadeau are co-inventors on a patent related to the measurement of tracheal pressure during liquid ventilation with the ventilator prototype used for this study (Indirect measurement in a total liquid ventilation system, PCT/CA2014/205548 US 2016/0271348 A1). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.