1. University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency, and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
3. Division of Renal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
4. Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5. Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
6. Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
7. University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
8. University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
9. University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
10. Oldenburg Clinic, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
11. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12. Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Interdepartmental University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13. University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
14. Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16. London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
17. University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
18. Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
20. Hôpital Fleurimont (CHUS), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
21. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
22. Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
23. University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany
24. University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
25. University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
26. now with Abiomed Europe GmbH, Aachen, Germany
27. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
28. Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
29. Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
30. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
31. for the SUSTAIN CSX Study Collaborators