About the Authors

Fabian M. Stuby

Affiliation BG Trauma Center, University of Tuebingen, Schnarrenbergstrasse 95, D-72076, Tuebingen, Germany

Stefan Döbele

Sdoebele@bgu-tuebingen.de

Affiliation BG Trauma Center, University of Tuebingen, Schnarrenbergstrasse 95, D-72076, Tuebingen, Germany

Susanne-Dorothea Schäffer

Affiliation BG Trauma Center, University of Tuebingen, Schnarrenbergstrasse 95, D-72076, Tuebingen, Germany

Simon Mueller

Affiliation Muon-Stat Statistical Services, Klugestrasse 28, D-70197, Stuttgart, Germany

Atesch Ateschrang

Affiliation BG Trauma Center, University of Tuebingen, Schnarrenbergstrasse 95, D-72076, Tuebingen, Germany

Matthias Baumann

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Baumann, Derek Zieker

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Paracelsus Hospital Ruit, Hedelfinger Strasse 166, D-73760, Ostfildern, Germany

Derek Zieker

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Baumann, Derek Zieker

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Strasse 3, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The study was financed by a grant from a commercial funder, OPED GmbH, Medizinpark 1, D-83626 Valley, Germany. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There are no financial or non-financial competing interests. This includes: employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products, etc. One of the authors (Simon Mueller) is an employee by a commercial company: “Muon-Stat Statistical Services”. Muon-Stat Statistical Services is an independent professional statistic institute. Muon-Stat Statistical Services was asked to do the statistics in case of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Muon-Stat Statistical Services is completely independent. There are no financial or non-financial competing interests. There are no other connections to this company including: consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc. There is no conflict of interest for any of the submitting authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FMS SD SDS SM AA MB DZ. Performed the experiments: FMS SDS AA MB DZ. Analyzed the data: FMS SD SDS AA SM MB DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FMS SD SDS AA MB DZ. Wrote the paper: FMS SD SDS AA MB DZ. Statistical analysis: FMS SD SDS SM. Revision: FMS SD. Registration of the study: FMS SD.