“…The characteristics of these studies were summarized in Table 1. Fourteen studies [22, 23, 25-28, 31, 34, 36, 38-41, 44] were performed in the operating room (OR) under general anesthesia, and 8 [24,29,30,32,33,35,42,43] were performed in the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients in the latter setting were heterogeneous, including those after cardiac surgery, with severe sepsis and acute respiratory failure.…”