Competing interests
MLL, SDB
EDWARDS
TNW, AKK, SDB, and RDU or their institutions received financial support from Medtronic to fund the original trial. In addition, TNW reports personal fees from Merck; RDU reports funding and/or personal fees from Merck, Medtronic, AcelRx, and Pfizer; AKK reports consulting fees from Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences, Philips Research North America, GE Healthcare, Baxter, Retia Medical, Caretaker Medical, Trevena Pharmaceuticals, Renibus Therapeutics and support via an NIH/NCATS KL2 award for a trial of continuous portable monitoring on hospital general care floors. FDP and MS report full time employment with Medtronic during the time of the work. MLL, CND, and AGD declare that they have no competing interests.