About the Authors

Martin Czerny

martin.czerny@insel.ch

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Ilan Barchichat

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Katharina Meszaros

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Gottfried H. Sodeck

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alberto Weber

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

David Reineke

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Lars Englberger

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Florian Schönhoff

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Alexander Kadner

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Hansjörg Jenni

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Jürg Schmidli

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Thierry P. Carrel

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Data retrievement: IB KM AW DR LE AK. Conceived and designed the experiments: MC JS FS. Analyzed the data: MC GS HJJ. Wrote the paper: MC TC JS.