Author contributions

Vladyslav Dieiev, Rom A. Stevens, Aliaksei Pustavoitau, and José L. Díaz-Gómez contributed to all aspects of this manuscript, including study conception and design; acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data; and drafting the main manuscript text. Pedro Salinas and Oleksandr Pavlysh contributed to the conception and design of the study. Sergii Dubrov, Vadim Gudzenko, Pedro Salinas, Rom A. Stevens, and Oleksandr Pavlysh contributed to the acquisition of data. Nataliya Matolinets, Olga Kravets, Daria Krishtafor, Stepan Cherniaiev, and Sergii Dubrov contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data. All authors reviewed and substantively revised the manuscript.

Acknowledgements

We thank Drs Lisa Rapaport, Bohdan Prysiazhniuk, Olha Kitsnak, Susanna Rudy, Andriy Ryzhkovskiy, and Allan Gottschalk for their contribution to data collection.

Disclosures

Dr. Pustavoitau is equity owner in the private company CoapTech LLC (Baltimore, MD, USA) and stock owner of GE HealthCare (Chicago, IL, USA) and Butterfly Network (Burlington, MA, USA). Dr. Dieiev is the president of Help Ukrainian Hospitals (HUH), Inc. (Mequon, WI, USA.)

Funding statement

Drs Stevens, Salinas, Gudzenko, Diaz-Gomez, and Pustavoitau received travel reimbursement from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM; Mount Prospect, IL, USA). Dr. Stevens received travel support from Help Ukrainian Hospitals (HUH), Inc.

Editorial responsibility

This submission was handled by Dr. Adrian Gelb, Guest Editor, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d’anesthésie.