Contributors Chief Editors Leo Heunks Dept of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location VUmc, and Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands l.heunks@amsterdamumc.nl Marcus J. Schultz Nuffield College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Mahidol–Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Dept of Intensive Care and Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. marcus.j.schultz@gmail.com Authors Hernán Aguirre-Bermeo Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca, Ecuador hermar0699@gmail.com Jean-Michel Arnal Service de réanimation, Hôpital Sainte Musse, Toulon, France Medical Research and New Technologies, Hamilton Medical AG, Bonaduz, Switzerland jean-michel@arnal.org Antonio Artigas Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Sagrado Corazón, Barcelona, Critical Care Center, ParcTaulí Hospital Universitari, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain aartigas@tauli.cat Carmen Sílvia Valente Barbas INCOR, University of São Paulo Medical School and Staff Physician Adult ICU, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil carmen.barbas@gmail.com Tobias Becher Dept of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany tobias.becher@uksh.de Thomas Bein Dept of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany thomas.bein@ukr.de Giacomo Bellani University of Milan-Bicocca, Dept of Experimental Medicine and San Gerardo Hospital, Dept of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Monza, Italy giacomo.bellani1@unimib.it Alexandra Beurton Service de médecine intensive- réanimation, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Hôpitaux universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP, and Inserm UMR S_999, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin- Bicêtre, France alex.beurton@gmail.com