1. From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena (V.T., S.R., R.A.C., F.B., K.B., F.B., K.R., M. Bauer); the SIRS-Lab GmbH, Jena (V.T., S.R., E.M., M. Blaess, H.-P.D.); the Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig (M. Bruegel, J.T.); and the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena (J.W., T.W.), Germany. Dr Deigner is now at...