Cardiology in the Young

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Original Article

Current challenges in cardiac intensive care: optimal strategies for mechanical ventilation and timing of extubation

David S. Coopera1 c1, John M. Costelloa2, Ronald A. Bronickia3, Arabela C. Stocka1, Jeffrey Phillip Jacobsa1, Chitra Ravishankara4, Troy E. Domingueza4 and Nancy S. Ghanayema5

a1 The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida (CHIF), Divisions of Critical Care and Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, All Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Tampa, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Florida Pediatric Associates and Cardiac Surgical Associates (CSA), Saint Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, United States of America

a2 Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

a3 Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America

a4 The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

a5 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Correspondence:

c1 Correspondence to: David S. Cooper, MD, MPH, The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida (CHIF), Clinical Assistant Professor of Paediatrics, University of South Florida, Florida Pediatric Associates, 880 Sixth Street South, Suite 370, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Tel: 727-767-4375; E-mail: davidscooper@verizon.net

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