Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, London, UK. Electronic address: gudrun.kunst@kcl.ac.uk.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: mln.milojevic@gmail.com.
• ³ Department of Anaesthesiology, Amsterdam UMC, VU University, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁷ Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁸ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
• ⁹ Academy for Perfusion, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiovascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy.
• ¹¹ Department of Perfusion, University Hospital Brussels, Jette, Belgium. Electronic address: lucpuis@me.com.
• ¹² Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, St Olav's University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address: alexander.wahba@ntnu.no.
• ¹³ Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Perfusion, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Acibadem Sistina Hospital, Skopje, North Macedonia.
• ¹⁶ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Verona Medical School, Verona, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
• ¹⁸ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Heart Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.