Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University Medical School, Duesseldorf, Germany.
• ² German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany.
• ³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
• ⁴ Clinic for Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Acute and Emergency Care, St Antonius Hospital Eschweiler, Eschweiler, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Congenital Heart Disease-Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Segeberger Kliniken, Bad Segeberg, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Centre, Berlin, German.
• ¹⁰ Department for Intensive Care Medicine, Imland Hospital Rendsburg, Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Thoracic Surgery, Philipps-University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Health Sciences and Management, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Stuttgart, Germany.
• ¹³ Institute for Medical Knowledge Management, Association of the Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF), Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Campus Kassel of the University of Southampton, Kassel, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Aschaffenburg-Alzenau Hospital, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Helios Clinic Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
• ¹⁷ HSK, Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Helios-Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, St. Marienkrankenhaus Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiology, Pneumology, Angiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, SLK-Kliniken Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany.
• ²⁰ Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
• ²² Medical University Children's Hospital, Hannover, Germany.
• ²³ Klinik für Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland.
• ²⁴ Medical Clinic and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, St. Antonius Hospital, Eschweiler, Germany.
• ²⁵ Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
• ²⁶ Division of Neonatology, Dr. v. Hauner Children's Hospital and Perinatal Center Munich-Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ²⁷ Division of Neonatology, Dr. v. Hauner Children's Hospital and Perinatal Center Munich-Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Germany.
• ²⁸ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
• ²⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
• ³⁰ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
• ³¹ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart- and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
• ³² Department of Physiotherapy, Heart- and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
• ³³ Deutsche Herzstiftung.
• ³⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Support, Ibbenbueren General Hospital, Ibbenbueren, Germany.
• ³⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Münster University Hospital, Münster, Germany.
• ³⁶ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Klinik Bavaria, Kreischa.
• ³⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Triemli City Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ³⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ³⁹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁴¹ Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Medical School, Duesseldorf, Germany.
• ⁴² Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany.