About the Authors
- David R. Altmann
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Wolfgang Korte
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Micha T. Maeder
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Affiliation Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Thomas Fehr
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Philipp Haager
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Hans Rickli
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Gian-Reto Kleger
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Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Regulo Rodriguez
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Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Peter Ammann
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* E-mail: peter.ammann@kssg.ch
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Competing Interests
Dr. Korte received travel grants and speaker fees from Pentapharm GmbH, Munich, Germany, manufacturer of the ROTEM coagulation analyzer applied in this study. Dr. Korte has been working extensively in the field of perioperative haemostasis; thrombelastographs (such as the ROTEM analyzer) are frequently used in this field. This explains the fact that Dr. Korte has given lectures for Pentapharm and its distributors. However, Dr. Korte confirms that this had no influence on the manuscript. All other authors have no relevant disclosure relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products pertaining to this manuscript. All authors confirm that they adhere to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials related to this manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DRA WK MTM TF PH HR GRK PA. Performed the experiments: WK PH GRK RR. Analyzed the data: DRA WK MTM TF PH HR GRK PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR. Wrote the paper: DRA MTM TF PA.