About the Authors

Muharrem Akin

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

akin.muharrem@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Vera Garcheva

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jan-Thorben Sieweke

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

John Adel

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ulrike Flierl

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Johann Bauersachs

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Schäfer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiac Arrest Centre, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

AS received modest lecture fees from ZOLL Inc. regarding therapeutic hypothermia. All other authors have no conflict of interest to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.