About the Authors

Melanie Meersch

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Meersch, Christoph Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Christoph Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Meersch, Christoph Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Hugo Van Aken

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Sven Martens

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Münster, Germany

Jan Rossaint

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Kai Singbartl

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dennis Görlich

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

John A. Kellum

Affiliation Center for Critical Care Nephrology, CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alexander Zarbock

zarbock@uni-muenster.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the following conflicts exist: JAK has received grant support and consulting fees from Astute Medical and Alere. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials. Alexander Zarbock is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria. The remaining authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR KS AZ. Performed the experiments: MM CS. Analyzed the data: DG AZ. Wrote the paper: MM CS HVA SM JK AZ.