COVID-19: Crisis Management in Congenital Heart Surgery

Affiliations

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

Elizabeth H Stephens et al. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;11(4):395-400.

doi: 10.1177/2150135120931398. Epub 2020 Jun 4.

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

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