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Article History

Received: 5 April 2019

Accepted: 20 May 2019

First Online: 30 May 2019

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: AKK collaborates with Medtronic (Boulder, CO, USA) as a member of the executive advisory board on respiratory monitoring and steering committee member of the PRODIGY trial and receives honoraria for these services including giving lectures and refunds of travels expenses. AKK serves on the clinical advisory board for Retia Medical (Valhalla, NY, USA), Linshom Medical (Ellicott City, MD, USA), and also serves as a consultant for La Jolla pharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA, USA) and as a subject matter expert for the development of the Anesthesia SimStat system for CAE healthcare (Sarasota, FL, USA). BS collaborates with Pulsion Medical Systems (Feldkirchen, Germany) as a member of the medical advisory board and received honoraria for giving lectures and refunds of travel expenses from Pulsion Medical Systems. BS received research support and honoraria for giving lectures from Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA, USA). BS received institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for consulting, and refunds of travel expenses from Tensys Medical (San Diego, CA, USA). BS received honoraria for giving lectures and refunds of travel expenses from CNSystems Medizintechnik (Graz, Austria). BS received institutional restricted research grants from Retia Medical. BS received honoraria for giving lectures from Philips Medizin Systeme Böblingen (Böblingen, Germany). PH declared that he has no competing interests.