About the Authors

Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

orlando.guntinas@med.uni-jena.de

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Katharina Geißler

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Marcus Komann

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Peter Schlattmann

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Jena, Germany

Winfried Meissner

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OGL WM. Performed the experiments: KG MK. Analyzed the data: OGL PS WM. Wrote the paper: OGL PS WM KG MK.