About the Authors

Henning Ohnesorge

Contributed equally to this work with: Henning Ohnesorge, Zhiying Feng

ohnesorge@anaesthesie.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Zhiying Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Henning Ohnesorge, Zhiying Feng

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Karina Zitta

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Markus Steinfath

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Martin Albrecht

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Berthold Bein

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HO ZF MS MA BB. Performed the experiments: HO ZF KZ MA. Analyzed the data: HO ZF MA BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ MA. Wrote the manuscript: HO ZF MA BB.