About the Authors

Detlef Kindgen-Milles

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

kindgen-milles@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Dept. of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Timo Brandenburger

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Julian F. W. Braun

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Dept. of Emergency Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Arnsberg, Germany

Corvin Cleff

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

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, German

Kian Moussazadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Sana Hospital Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

Ingo Mrosewski

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, MDI Limbach Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Jörg Timm

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Dietmar Wetzchewald

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Emergency Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Arnsberg, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Ingo Mrosewski is employed by the MDI Limbach Berlin GmbH, a commercial clinical laboratory. The MDI Limbach GmbH did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. It did not provide specific financial support but all costs for laboratory analysis were paid for by the Dept. of Emergency Medicine at University of Herdecke. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing of data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. All other authors have nothing to declare.