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Saugel, Bernd https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-0722
Heeschen, Julia
Hapfelmeier, Alexander
Romagnoli, Stefano
Greiwe, Gillis
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
The study was funded with an institutional restricted research grant by Retia Medical LLC.
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Article History
Received: 18 April 2019
Accepted: 5 August 2019
First Online: 27 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: BS has received institutional restricted research grants from Retia Medical (Valhalla, NY, USA). BS collaborates with Pulsion Medical Systems (Feldkirchen, Germany) as a member of the medical advisory board and has received institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for giving lectures, and refunds of travel expenses from Pulsion Medical Systems. BS has received research support and honoraria for giving lectures from Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA, USA). BS has received institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for giving lectures, and refunds of travel expenses from CNSystems Medizintechnik (Graz, Austria). BS has received institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for consulting, and refunds of travel expenses from Tensys Medical (San Diego, CA, USA). BS has received honoraria for giving lectures from Philips Medizin Systeme Böblingen (Böblingen, Germany). SR received honoraria for giving lectures from Baxter (Rome, Italy), BBraun (Melsungen, Germany), Orion Pharma (Espoo, Finland), Medigas (Assago, Italy), and Vygon (Écouen, France). SR has received honoraria for consulting from Vygon and Medtronic (Minneapolis, MN, USA). SR has received institutional restricted research grants from Pall International (Milano, Italy) and Baxter (Rome, Italy). GG has received travel expenses from Vygon. For all other authors there is no conflict of interest to declare.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This method comparison study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee (Ethikkomission der Ärztekammer Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany). 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.
