COVID-19: Crisis Management in Congenital Heart Surgery

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: jdearani@mayo.edu.
³ Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Medical City Children's Hospital, Dallas, Texas.
⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁶ Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, CS Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.

Elizabeth H Stephens et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;110(2):701-706.

doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.001. Epub 2020 Apr 14.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: jdearani@mayo.edu.
³ Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Medical City Children's Hospital, Dallas, Texas.
⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁶ Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, CS Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.

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