About the Authors

Tanja Karen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Karen, Gerald W. Schlager

tanja.karen@uk-essen.de

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Gerald W. Schlager

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Karen, Gerald W. Schlager

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Ivo Bendix

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Marco Sifringer

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ralf Herrmann

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Christos Pantazis

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

David Enot

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Matthias Keller

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Thoralf Kerner

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Asklepios Klinik Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

Ursula Felderhoff-Mueser

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics I, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GWS IB MS RH T. Kerner UFM. Performed the experiments: T. Karen GWS IB MS RH CP. Analyzed the data: GWS T. Karen IB RH MS DE MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB MS GWS RH. Wrote the paper: T. Karen GWS IB MS UF.