About the Authors

Alexander Gebauer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alexander.c.gebauer@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Johanna Konertz

Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna Konertz, Johannes Petersen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Johannes Petersen

Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna Konertz, Johannes Petersen

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Jens Brickwedel

Roles Supervision

‡ JB and LSU also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Denise Köster

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Leonie Schulte-Uentrop

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

‡ JB and LSU also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hermann Reichenspurner

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Evaldas Girdauskas

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.