About the Authors

Thomas C. Sauter

thomas.sauter@insel.ch

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

Gregor Lindner

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

Sufian S. Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

Alexander Benedikt Leichtle

Affiliation Centre of Laboratory Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Georg-Martin Fiedler

Affiliation Centre of Laboratory Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

Dominik G. Haider

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS DH AE GL. Performed the experiments: GMF ABL GL. Analyzed the data: DH TS SSA GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABL SSA. Wrote the paper: TS DH SSA.