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¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD 21287. Electronic address: ckoch11@jhmi.edu.
² Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Colleen G Koch et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 May.

. 2018 May;105(5):1577.

doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.10.059.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD 21287. Electronic address: ckoch11@jhmi.edu.
² Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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