Erratum to: Intensive Care Med (2008) DOI 10.1007/s00134-008-1118-4

Tom Teerlink contributed significantly to the work, his name was erroneously omitted from the list of authors.

The correct list of authors is:

B. Ellger · L. Langouche · Y. Debaveye · I. Vanhorebeek · G. Van den Berghe

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

B. Ellger (✉)

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

M. Richir · P. A. Van Leeuwen

Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

T. Teerlink

Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Both Björn Ellger and Lies Langouche contributed equally to this work.