Gfroerer, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7273-6055
Baumann, Petra
Schwalbach, Anne-Kathrin
Smirnoff, Alexandre
Funding for this research was provided by:
B. Braun Surgical SA
Article History
Received: 24 September 2018
Accepted: 9 April 2019
First Online: 2 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The french arm of the trial was approved by following Institutional Review Board: Ministere de l’education nationale, de lénseignement superieur et de la recherche, Comite consultative sur le traitement de l` information en matière de recherché dans le domaine de la santé (CCTIRS), Department de la culture scientifique et des relations avec la socièté, 1,rue Descartes – 75231 Paris Cedex 05; Reference numbers of ethics committee registration in France was: CCTIRS N° 16–103 and CNIL:MMS/CWR/AR163920.The german arm of the trial was approved by the following Institutional Review Board: Ethik-Kommission des Fachbereichs Medizin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main; ExternalRef removed; Reference number of the ethics committee registration in Germany was: 398/15.
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: Stefan Gfroerer, Anne-Kathrin Schwalbach and Alexandre Smirnoff declare that they have no competing interests. Petra Baumann is an employee of Aesculap AG.
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