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Vasoactive-inotropic score as a measure of pediatric cardiac surgical outcomes

Mark A Scheurer, Ravi R Thiagarajan

    Pediatric Critical Care Medicine : a Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
    |March 11, 2010
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