About the Authors

Maurin Lampart

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Núria Zellweger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stefano Bassetti

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter

Roles Project administration

Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Katharina M. Rentsch

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Martin Siegemund

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Roland Bingisser

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stefan Osswald

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Gabriela M. Kuster

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Raphael Twerenbold

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.twerenbold@uke.de

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University Center of Cardiovascular Science and Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

RT has received speaker honoraria/consulting honoraria from Abbott, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Roche, Siemens, Singulex, and Thermo Scientific BRAHMS, outside the submitted work. GK has received consultant fees from Janssen, outside the submitted work. Authors not named here have disclosed no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.