About the Authors

Bart Torensma

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Dutch Obesity Clinic West, The Hague, The Netherlands, Department of Anesthesiology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, The Netherlands

Chris H. Martini

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Martijn Boon

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Erik Olofsen

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Bas in ‘t Veld

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, The Netherlands

Ronald S. L. Liem

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dutch Obesity Clinic West, The Hague, The Netherlands

Mireille T. T. Knook

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dutch Obesity Clinic West, The Hague, The Netherlands

Dingeman J. Swank

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dutch Obesity Clinic West, The Hague, The Netherlands

Albert Dahan

a.dahan@lumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Albert Dahan, Chris Martini and Martijn Boon received speaker fees and/or consultancy fees from MSD Nederland.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AD BT CM MB DS. Data curation: BT. Formal analysis: AD CM BT EO. Funding acquisition: AD. Investigation: RL MK DS BT CM. Methodology: AD CM BT BitV MB. Project administration: BT DS. Resources: AD DS BT. Software: AD CM BT. Supervision: AD CM. Validation: AD BT. Visualization: AD BT CM. Writing – original draft: AD. Writing – review & editing: AD BT CM MB DS.