Blood conservation pediatric cardiac surgery in all ages and complexity levels
Mohsen Karimi, Jill M Sullivan, Department of Surgery, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northeast Pediatric Specialties, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT 06106, United States
Carrie Linthicum, Department of Perfusion Services, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT 06106, United States
Anil Mathew, Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT 06106, United States
Author contributions: All the authors greatly contributed to this study.
Institutional review board statement: The institutional review board has exempted patients’ consent and approved the study.
Informed consent statement: No consent form needed due to retrospective nature of the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The author(s) received no financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article and there is no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: The original database is available by contacting corresponding author at mkarimi@connecticutchildrens.org.
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Correspondence to: Mohsen Karimi, MD, Department of Surgery, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northeast Pediatric Specialties, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, 282 Washington Street, Suite 2B, Hartford, CT 06106, United States. mkarimi@connecticutchildrens.org
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Received: October 13, 2016
Peer-review started: October 21, 2016
First decision: December 15, 2016
Revised: December 21, 2016
Accepted: January 11, 2017
Article in press: January 14, 2017
Published online: April 26, 2017
