About the Authors

Christian Karagiannidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Karagiannidis, Corinna Hentschker, Carina Mostert, Wolfram Windisch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Christian.Karagiannidis@uni-wh.de, karagiannidisc@kliniken-koeln.de

Affiliation Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, ARDS and ECMO Center, Kliniken der Stadt Köln, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Corinna Hentschker

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Karagiannidis, Corinna Hentschker, Carina Mostert, Wolfram Windisch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Research Institute of the Local Health Care Funds, Berlin, Germany

Michael Westhoff

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pneumology, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Lungenklinik Hemer, Hemer, Germany, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

Steffen Weber-Carstens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Uwe Janssens

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Medical Clinic and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, St.-Antonius Hospital, Eschweiler, Germany

Stefan Kluge

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Pfeifer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Pneumology, Donaustauf Hospital, Donaustauf, Germany

Claudia Spies

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tobias Welte

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and German Centre of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rolf Rossaint

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Carina Mostert

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Karagiannidis, Corinna Hentschker, Carina Mostert, Wolfram Windisch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Research Institute of the Local Health Care Funds, Berlin, Germany

Wolfram Windisch

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Karagiannidis, Corinna Hentschker, Carina Mostert, Wolfram Windisch

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, ARDS and ECMO Center, Kliniken der Stadt Köln, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Karagiannidis reports personal fees from Maquet, personal fees from Xenios, personal fees from Bayer, non-financial support from Speaker of the German register of ICUs, grants from German Ministry of Research and Education, during the conduct of the study. Dr. Hentschker has nothing to disclose. Dr. Westhoff has nothing to disclose. Dr. Weber-Carstens has nothing to disclose. Dr. Janssens has nothing to disclose. Dr. Kluge reports non-financial support from Ambu, ETView Ltd, Fisher & Paykel and Xenios., grants from Daiichi Sankyo, Pfizer, personal fees from Astra, C.R. Bard, Baxter, Biotest, Cytosorbents, Fresenius, Gilead, MSD, Pfizer, Philips, ZOLL, personal fees and other from Bayer, Fresenius, Gilead, MSD und Pfizer, outside the submitted work. MP reports no conflicts of interests in regard to the manuscript, lecture fees from Boehringer, Novartis, Astra_Zeneca, Roche and fees for advisory board meetings from Boehringer, Novartis, Roche Current president of the German Society of Pneumology. Dr. Spies reports grants from Public Grants, grants from IIT grants from companies, other from Meeting support from companies (e.g. for the Leopoldina 2020 meeting), outside the submitted work; In addition, Dr. Spies has a patent EEG monitoring licensed, and a patent Ceilings licensed. Dr. Welte reports grants from German Minstry of Research and Education, during the conduct of the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.