About the Authors

Otavio T. Ranzani

Contributed equally to this work with: Otavio T. Ranzani, Fernando Godinho Zampieri

otavioranzani@yahoo.com.br

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Fernando Godinho Zampieri

Contributed equally to this work with: Otavio T. Ranzani, Fernando Godinho Zampieri

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil

Daniel Neves Forte

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Research and Education Institute, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil

Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Research and Education Institute, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil

Marcelo Park

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Research and Education Institute, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Involved in the conception, design, analysis and interpretation of data: OTR FGZ DNF LCPA MP. Involved in the acquisition of data: OTR FGZ LCPA MP. Revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content: DNF LCPA MP. Approved the final version of the manuscript: OTR FGZ DNF LCPA MP. Conceived and designed the experiments: OTR FGZ DNF LCPA MP. Performed the experiments: OTR FGZ DNF LCPA MP. Analyzed the data: OTR FGZ. Wrote the paper: OTR FGZ.