About the Authors

Andre Oberthuer

andre.oberthuer@uk-koeln.de

Affiliation Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Cologne, Children’s Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Fatma Dönmez

Affiliation Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of the City of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Frank Oberhäuser

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Moritz Hahn

Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Marc Hoppenz

Affiliation Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of the City of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas Hoehn

Affiliation Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Department of General Pediatrics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany

Bernhard Roth

Affiliation Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Cologne, Children’s Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Matthias Laudes

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AO FD FO M. Hahn M. Hoppenz TH BR ML. Performed the experiments: AO FD FO. Analyzed the data: AO FD M. Hahn M. Hoppenz BR ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO FD FO TH M. Hahn ML BR. Wrote the paper: AO BR ML M. Hahn M. Hoppenz TH.