Friesecke, S.
Träger, K.
Schittek, G. A.
Molnar, Z.
Bach, F.
Kogelmann, K.
Bogdanski, R.
Weyland, A.
Nierhaus, A.
Nestler, F.
Olboeter, D.
Tomescu, D.
Jacob, D.
Haake, H.
Grigoryev, E.
Nitsch, M.
Baumann, A.
Quintel, M.
Schott, M.
Kielstein, J. T.
Meier-Hellmann, A.
Born, F.
Schumacher, U.
Singer, M.
Kellum, J.
Brunkhorst, F. M.
Article History
Received: 24 May 2017
Revised: 10 July 2017
Accepted: 10 July 2017
First Online: 4 September 2017
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: F. Bach, R. Bogdanski, F. Born, E. Grigoryev, H. Haake, D. Jacob, J.T. Kielstein, A. Meier-Hellmann, F. Nestler, M. Nitsch, D. Olboeter, M. Schott, M. Singer and D. Tomescu declare that they have no competing interests. A. Baumann reports grants, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Cytosorbents GmbH, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Diamed GmbH, nonfinancial support and other from Orion Pharma, nonfinancial support and other from MSD Pharma, outside the submitted work. F.M. Brunkhorst reports grants and personal fees from CytoSorbents Europe. S. Friesecke reports grants, personal fees and nonfinancial support from cytosorbents Europe. J. Kellum reports grants and personal fees from Cytostorbenets, outside the submitted work. K. Kogelmann reports grants from Cytostorbenets, outside the submitted work. Z. Molnar reports personal fees from CytoSorbents Europe. A. Nierhaus reports personal fees from CytoSorbents Europe, Personal fees from Biotest AG, outside the submitted work. M. Quintel reports personal fees from Cytosorbent, outside the submitted work. G.A. Schittek reports personal fees from Cytosorbents Europe GmbH, outside the submitted work. U. Schumacher reports personal fees from BAYER, outside the submitted work (part time employee). K. Träger reports personal fees and other from Cytosorbents Europe. A. Weyland reports personal fees and other from CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, outside the submitted work.
: This study protocol has been submitted to the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena that acts as the IRB in charge for Germany. All German ethic committees involved are informed about the participation of centers in their area of responsibility and the decision of the IRB in charge. In centers from outside Germany, approval of the local ethics commission in charge is obtained and all national regulations are adhered to.