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Chronic post-surgical pain in pediatric population

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Acknowledgements

KA acknowledges the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Hospital for Sick Children, for secured academic time to conduct the current work as a recipient of Merit Awards.

Funding

This work was supported by Perioperative Services Facilitator Grant Program 2021–2022 (NS, KA), and Outcomes Research Award 2020–2021 (KA), Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, and Project Grants (PJX179857) 2022–2023, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (KA).

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  1. Department of Critical Care and Anesthesia, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

    Machiko Furuta & Yasuyuki Suzuki

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Ave, #2211, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada

    Naiyi Sun & Kazuyoshi Aoyama

  3. Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Kazuyoshi Aoyama

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MF and KA: conceived this paper. MF and KA: wrote the initial and subsequent draft of the manuscript, which YS and NS: commented and edited. All authors approved the final version.

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Furuta, M., Suzuki, Y., Sun, N. et al. Chronic post-surgical pain in pediatric population. J Anesth 36, 785–786 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-022-03102-2

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