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Affiliations

• ¹ Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing, 210009, People's Republic of China.
• ² Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
• ³ Institute of Technical Medicine, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China.
• ⁵ Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing, 210009, People's Republic of China. yiyiyang2004@163.com.
• ⁶ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁷ Division of Respirology and Critical Care Medicine, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁸ Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.