1 Department for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
2 private non-affiliated.
3 Vice President, Global Sepsis Alliance and member of the Steering Committee, European Sepsis Alliance, c/o Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
4 Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology, Research Center in Cooperation with AUVA, Vienna, Austria.
5 Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.