About the Authors

Marco Ranucci

cardioanestesia@virgilio.it

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Giovanni Carboni

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Mauro Cotza

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Paolo Bianchi

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Umberto Di Dedda

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Tommaso Aloisio

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

the Surgical and Clinical Outcome Research (SCORE) Group

Membership of the Surgical and Clinical Outcome Research (SCORE) Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic—Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR GC MC. Performed the experiments: MR GC MC. Analyzed the data: MR PB TA UDD. Wrote the paper: MR MC GC.