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You are an intensive care unit (ICU) pediatric attending called to assist with a cardiac arrest in a neonate. The infant has just been brought back to the ICU following a repair of tracheoesophageal atresia. The patient’s history, physical examination, and laboratory results (30 min before arrival in the ICU) were all within normal limits.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2013). Case 52: Cardiac Arrest in a Neonate. In: Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7040-3_52
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