About the Authors

Osama Mohamad

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Danielle Drury-Stewart

Contributed equally to this work with: Danielle Drury-Stewart, Mingke Song

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mingke Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Danielle Drury-Stewart, Mingke Song

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ben Faulkner

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dongdong Chen

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shan Ping Yu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ling Wei

lwei7@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OM SPY LW. Performed the experiments: OM DD-S BF DC LW. Analyzed the data: OM MS DC SPY LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPY LW. Wrote the paper: OM SPY. Read the manuscript: LW.