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Article History

Received: 4 September 2021

Accepted: 3 November 2021

First Online: 24 November 2021

Declarations

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: The study was approved by our institution’s ethics committee (ethics proposal Universitatsmedizin Goettingen 25/6/13, 12 August 2014) and registered in the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00010428, 7 April 2017). Informed written consent for performing the sonographic and echocardiographic investigations was obtained from the participating patients or their legal guardians.

: Not applicable.

: The authors have no conflicts of interest related to the content of the manuscript to declare. General competing interests are as follows: SS and JD have no conflicts of interest to declare. OM has given lectures on mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic monitoring at regional workshops and industry-sponsored sessions on national congresses, and has received speaker’s honoraria from Pulsion Medical, HillRom and Maquet Critical Care. MQ consults for companies related to the field of Critical Care such as Maquet Critical Care, Novalung, Covidien, CareFusion, Gambro, Sphere Medical and receive(s)d honoraria for these consultancies. He is a member of the international steering committee of the INTEREST trail, sponsored by Faron Pharmaceuticals, and DSMB member of the Athersys B04-01 ARDS study.