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Immediate postoperative care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Ian Adatia*
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program, Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Maurice Beghetti
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Children’s Hospital, Department of the Child and Adolescent, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Correspondence to: Ian Adatia, MBChB, MRCP(UK), FRCP(C), Room 3A1.44, Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Center, 8440 112 St., Edmonton, AB, T6G 3T7, Canada. E-mail: iadatia@ualberta.ca

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