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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Emerging Countries

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The infant mortality rate (IMR) of a country, defined as the number of infants dying before reaching 1 year of age for every 1000 children born alive during the same year, is a commonly used indicator to reflect the health status of a population.

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  1. International Child Health, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    William Novick MD

  2. William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance, Memphis, TN, USA

    William Novick MD & Marcelo Cardarelli MD, MPH

  3. Inova Children Hospital, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Marcelo Cardarelli MD, MPH

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  1. Cardiac Anesthesiology Department, Anesthesiology Research Center Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Dabbagh

  2. Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Antonio Hernandez Conte

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Lorraine Lubin

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Novick, W., Cardarelli, M. (2017). Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Emerging Countries. In: Dabbagh, A., Conte, A., Lubin, L. (eds) Congenital Heart Disease in Pediatric and Adult Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44691-2_42

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