About the Authors

Tone Bull Enger

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Hilde Pleym

Affiliations Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Roar Stenseth

Affiliations Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Guri Greiff

Affiliations Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Alexander Wahba

Affiliations Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Vibeke Videm

vibeke.videm@ntnu.no

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TBE HP RS GG AW VV. Formal analysis: TBE VV. Funding acquisition: TBE VV. Investigation: TBE VV HP RS GG AW. Methodology: TBE VV. Project administration: VV. Resources: TBE VV HP RS GG AW. Supervision: VV. Validation: TBE VV. Visualization: TBE VV. Writing – original draft: TBE. Writing – review & editing: TBE VV HP RS GG AW.