About the Authors

Yuanda Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanda Xu, Xilong Deng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Xilong Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanda Xu, Xilong Deng

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, 510060, China

Yun Han

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Fangcun Branch of Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510360, China

Lixin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Foshan First People’s Hospital, Foshan, 528000, China

Weiqun He

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Sibei Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Lingbo Nong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Huang Huang

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, 510060, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Fangcun Branch of Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510360, China

Tieou Yu

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Foshan First People’s Hospital, Foshan, 528000, China

Yimin Li

dryiminli@vip.163.com (YL); lxq1118@126.com (XL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Xiaoqing Liu

dryiminli@vip.163.com (YL); lxq1118@126.com (XL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX XD YL XL. Performed the experiments: YH LZ WH SC LN HH YZ TY. Analyzed the data: YX XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH LZ WH SC LN HH YZ TY. Wrote the paper: YX XD.