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Article History

Received: 27 December 2018

Accepted: 16 January 2019

First Online: 14 February 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The project was approved by the Ethics committee of the University of Witten/ Herdecke (Chair: Prof. Dr. W. Gaidzik, no. 124/2017) and individual agreement was obtained.

: Written consent for study participation was obtained.

: S.G. Sakka has received an honorarium from APD for writing the study proposal and setup of the prospective clinical study. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Pulsion, Maquet Getinge Group.

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