From the Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
Submitted for consideration May 2022; accepted for publication in revised form November 2022.
The authors have no conflicts of interest.
The study was funded by Anhui Province Key Research and Development Plan, Grant/Award Number: 2022e07020039; University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province, Grant/Award Number: KJ2021ZD0023
N.L. designed and drafted the paper. X.H., R.H., W.Y., C.Y., M.S., and M.F. were involved in the clinical care and management of the patients. X.H., Y.Z., and N.L. analyzed the data. All authors approved the final manuscript as submitted and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
N.L. and X.H. contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence: Nian Liu, M.D, Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui province, 230022, China. E-mail: [email protected]
