About the Authors

Patrick Paulus

Patrick.Paulus@kgu.de

Affiliation Clinic of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Pia Ockelmann

Affiliation Clinic of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Sabine Tacke

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Clinic for Small Animals Surgery, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Nora Karnowski

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology, Global Biomarker, Bayer Pharma AG, Wuppertal, Germany

Peter Ellinghaus

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology, Global Biomarker, Bayer Pharma AG, Wuppertal, Germany

Bertram Scheller

Affiliation Clinic of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Johannes Holfeld

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Anja Urbschat

Affiliation Clinic of Urology, Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Kai Zacharowski

Affiliation Clinic of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors received scientific assistance from a commercial source (Bayer Pharma AG). Nora Karnowski and Peter Ellinghaus are employees from Bayer Pharma AG. No other author received a payment or salary by this company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Besides this, no other competing interests has to be declared.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP. Performed the experiments: PP PO NK PE AU. Analyzed the data: PP PO ST BS JH KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP PE BS KZ. Wrote the paper: PP PO KZ.