About the Authors

Matthias Lubnow

matthias.lubnow@ukr.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Alois Philipp

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Maik Foltan

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Tone Bull Enger

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Dirk Lunz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Thomas Bein

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Assad Haneya

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Christof Schmid

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Günter Riegger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Thomas Müller

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Karla Lehle

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

CS is an advisor for Maquet Cardiopulmonary AG, Rastatt, Germany. ML, AP and TM received travel support and lecture honoraries from Maquet Cardiopulmonary AG, Rastatt, Germany. TB is member of the advisory board of Novalung, Heilbronn, Germany and he received honoraria. None of the other authors has a financial relationship with a commercial entity that has an interest in the subject of the presented manuscript or other conflicts of interest to disclose. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML KL AP MF TM DL CS AH GR TB TBE. Analyzed the data: ML KL AP MF TM DL CS AH GR TB TBE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML KL AP MF. Wrote the paper: ML KL AP MF TM DL CS AH GR TB TBE. Read and approved the final manuscript: ML KL AP MF TM DL CS AH GR TB TBE.