Article History
Received: 16 October 2024
Accepted: 4 December 2024
First Online: 10 January 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee (REC) at the Critical Care Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. The committee reviewed and approved the research protocol. The need for individual patient consent was waived due to observational nature of the study.
: Not applicable.
: Prof Sherif Mokhtar is a co-author of this study and the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the journal. He was not involved in handling this manuscript during the submission. The rest of the authors have no conflict of interest to declare.