Liu, Ling
Li, Hong-Liang
Lu, Cong
Patel, Purab
Wang, Danqiong
Beck, Jennifer
Sinderby, Christer
Article History
Received: 17 April 2023
Accepted: 9 August 2023
First Online: 25 August 2023
Declarations
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: The study was approved by St. Michael’s Hospital Animal Care and Use Committee (ACC 482). Care and handling of the animals were performed according to the Canadian Council on Animal Care.
: Not applicable.
: JB and CS have made inventions related to neural control of mechanical ventilation that are patented. The patents are assigned to the academic institution(s) where inventions were made. The license for these patents belongs to Maquet Critical Care. Future commercial uses of this technology may provide financial benefit to JB and CS through royalties. JB and CS each own 50% of Neurovent Research Inc (NVR). NVR is a research and development company that builds the equipment and catheters for research studies. NVR has a consulting agreement with Maquet Critical Care. St-Michael’s Hospital has a research agreement with Maquet Critical Care AB (Solna, Sweden) and receives royalty and overhead from this agreement. The remaining authors have no competing interests to declare.