About the Authors

Tomoharu Tanaka

665tana@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (TT); hif1@mac.com (KH)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Shinichi Kai

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Tomohiro Koyama

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Hiroki Daijo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Takehiko Adachi

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Kazuhiko Fukuda

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Kiichi Hirota

665tana@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (TT); hif1@mac.com (KH)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT KF KH. Performed the experiments: TT SK TK HD. Analyzed the data: TT KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA. Wrote the paper: TT KF KH.