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What’s new in mechanical support strategies for the intensivist in children with severe cardiac failure

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  1. Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Heart and Lung Directorate, UCL, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

    Aparna Hoskote

  2. Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Centre University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Brigitte Stiller

  3. Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA

    Ravi R. Thiagarajan

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Hoskote, A., Stiller, B. & Thiagarajan, R.R. What’s new in mechanical support strategies for the intensivist in children with severe cardiac failure. Intensive Care Med 47, 1152–1155 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06500-4

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