About the Authors

Ghazi Al Ateah

Contributed equally to this work with: Ghazi Al Ateah, Annemarie Kirschfink

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Rhein-Maas Klinikum, Wuerselen, Germany

Annemarie Kirschfink

Contributed equally to this work with: Ghazi Al Ateah, Annemarie Kirschfink

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

akirschfink@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Michael Frick

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Mohammad Almalla

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Michael Becker

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Rhein-Maas Klinikum, Wuerselen, Germany

Christian Cornelissen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Rainer Hoffmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, St. Bonifatius Hospital, Lingen, Germany

Nikolaus Marx

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ertunc Altiok

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.