Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Cambridge
Article History
Received: 29 July 2018
Accepted: 20 September 2018
First Online: 29 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: FAZ has received salary support for dedicated research time, during which this project was partially completed. Such salary support came from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada – Harry S. Morton Traveling Fellowship in Surgery and the University of Manitoba Clinician Investigator Program. PS has financial interest in a part of licensing fee for ICM+ software (Cambridge Enterprise Ltd., UK).MC has financial interest in a part of licensing fee for ICM+ software (Cambridge Enterprise Ltd., UK).
: The authors that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (name of institute/committee) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All data related to patient admission demographics and high frequency digital signals from monitoring devices were collected in an entirely anonymous format, negating the need for formal consent, as in accordance with institutional research committee policies.
: For this type of study, formal informed consent was not required.