Intraoperative phrenic nerve stimulation to prevent diaphragm fiber weakness during thoracic surgery

• Guilherme Bresciani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1526-5573

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• Thomas Beaver,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1785-0119

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• A. Daniel Martin,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Robbert van der Pijl,

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

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Robert Mankowski,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Christiaan Leeuwenburgh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Coen A. C. Ottenheijm,

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

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Tomas Martin,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• George Arnaoutakis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Shakeel Ahmed,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Vinicius M. Mariani,

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

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Wei Xue,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Barbara K. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara K. Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Leonardo F. Ferreira

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leonardo.ferreira@duke.edu

  Affiliations Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Physical Therapy, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6581-5882

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