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Karagiannidis, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-2849
Strassmann, Stephan
Schwarz, Sarah
Merten, Michaela
Fan, Eddy
Beck, Jennifer
Sinderby, Christer
Windisch, Wolfram
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Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 21 March 2019
First Online: 23 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval for this study was gained from the Ethics Committee of the University of Witten/ Herdecke. Informed written consent was obtained from the patient. The study was registered retrospectively (German Clinical Trials Register/ DRKS 00012737).
: The manuscript has been read and its submission approved by all co-authors. Patients were prospectively included after informed consent was obtained from the legal caregiver.
: C.K. received travel grants and lecture fees from Maquet, Rastatt, Germany; S.S. an M.M. have no conflicts of interest, St.St. received travel grants and lecture fees from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany. W.W. received fees for advisory board meetings and lectures from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany. E.F. received fees as a consultant for MC3 Cardiopulmonary and ALung Technologies. Drs. Beck and Sinderby have made inventions related to neural control of mechanical ventilation that are patented. The patents are assigned to the academic institution(s) where inventions were made. The license for these patents belongs to Maquet Critical Care. Future commercial uses of this technology may provide financial benefit to Dr. Beck and Dr. Sinderby through royalties. Dr. Beck and Dr. Sinderby each own 50% of Neurovent Research Inc. (NVR). NVR is a research and development company that builds the equipment and catheters for research studies. NVR has a consulting agreement with Maquet Critical Care. St-Michael’s Hospital has a research agreement with Maquet Critical Care AB (Solna, Sweden) and receives royalty and overhead from this agreement. C.K. and W.W. received an open research grant for the hospital from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany. E.F. is supported by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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