About the Authors
- Jesús Villar
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jesús Villar, Nuria E. Cabrera
* E-mail: jesus.villar54@gmail.com
Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Keenan Research Center at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Nuria E. Cabrera
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jesús Villar, Nuria E. Cabrera
Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Francisco Valladares
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Anatomy, Pathology and Histology, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Milena Casula
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Carlos Flores
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
- Lluís Blanch
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Critical Care Center, Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
- María Elisa Quilez
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Critical Care Center, Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
- Norberto Santana-Rodríguez
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Affiliations Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Robert M. Kacmarek
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Affiliations Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Anesthesia, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Arthur S. Slutsky
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Affiliations Keenan Research Center at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Adjunct Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JV NEC LB RMK ASS. Performed the experiments: JV NEC MC FV CF MEQ. Analyzed the data: JV NEC CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JV NEC FV MC CF LB MEQ NSR RMK ASS. Wrote the paper: JV NEC FV MC CF LB MEQ NSR RMK ASS. Obtained funding for the study: JV.