About the Authors
- Melanie Meersch
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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
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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
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Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- Sven Martens
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Münster, Germany
- Jan Rossaint
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Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- Kai Singbartl
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Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Dennis Görlich
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Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- John A. Kellum
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Affiliation Center for Critical Care Nephrology, CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alexander Zarbock
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* E-mail: 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.