About the Authors
- Thomas Seidemann
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Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Claudia Spies
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* E-mail: claudia.spies@charite.de
Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Rudolf Morgenstern
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Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Klaus-Dieter Wernecke
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Affiliation SOSTANA, Berlin, Germany
- Nicolai Netzhammer
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Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
All authors have no conflict of interest. Statistical analysis has been supervised by Professor Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, PhD, former head of the Institute of Medical Biometry at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and owner of Sostana GmbH. We confirm that it does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: NN CS TS RM. Data curation: KDW. Formal analysis: KDW TS CS. Investigation: TS NN. Methodology: NN CS TS KDW. Project administration: CS NN. Resources: CS KDW. Software: NN KDW. Supervision: CS. Validation: KDW RM CS. Visualization: TS NN KDW. Writing – original draft: TS. Writing – review & editing: CS KDW.