About the Authors

Jan N. Hilberath

jhilberath@partners.org

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Holger K. Eltzschig

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Stanton K. Shernan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea H. Worthington

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sary F. Aranki

Affiliation Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martina Nowak-Machen

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNH HKE SKS MN-M. Performed the experiments: JNH HKE SKS AHW. Analyzed the data: JNH HKE SKS AHW. Wrote the paper: JNH SKS SFA MN-M.