About the Authors

Hans-Georg Fischer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Georg Fischer, Christopher Schmidtbauer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), Head and Neck Surgery, Military Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Christopher Schmidtbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Georg Fischer, Christopher Schmidtbauer

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

c.schmidtbauer@gmx.de

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Annett Seiffart

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Clinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Michael Bucher

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Clinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Stefan K. Plontke

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Torsten Rahne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.