Karagiannidis, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-2849
Merten, Michaela L.
Heunks, Leo
Strassmann, Stephan E.
Schäfer, Simone
Magnet, Friederike
Windisch, Wolfram
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Accepted: 6 August 2019
First Online: 9 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (Ethical committee of the University Witten/Herdecke No. 101/2015) and registered at the German Clinical Trial Register (DRKS) and the WHO trial register (DRKS00011004), registered 20th September 2016, with the first patient being enrolled on 30th September 2016. Prior to inclusion, written informed consent was obtained from the legal caregiver. The ethical committee approved the procedure for the collection of consent from legal caregivers ExternalRef removed.
: Not Applicable.
: C.K. received travel grants and lecture fees from Maquet, Rastatt, Germany. Si.Sc. and M.M. have no conflicts of interest. St.St. received travel grants and lecture fees from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany. F.M. received lecture fees from SenTec AG, Therwil, Switzerland. W.W. received fees for advisory board meetings and lectures from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany. W.W. also received lecture fees from SenTec AG, Therwil, Switzerland. The hospital of the research group C.K. and W.W. received an open research grant from Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Rastatt, Germany unrelated to this work.