Funnell, Jonathan Perry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6150-6828
D’Antona, Linda
Craven, Claudia Louise
Thorne, Lewis
Watkins, Laurence Dale
Toma, Ahmed Kassem
Article History
Received: 3 July 2020
Accepted: 24 September 2020
First Online: 28 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No funding was received for the conduction of this study. LD’s research fellowship is sponsored by B.Braun. LDW has received honoraria from and served on advisory boards for Medtronic, B. Braun and Codman. AKT research time was supported by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. The other authors have no disclosures to report.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study, formal consent is not required. Informed consent was given by all patients for procedures described as part of their routine clinical management.