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  1. Professor of Anesthesia adn Critical Care, University of Pennsyalvania School of Medicine Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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  3. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital , Pediatric Critical Care Medicine , University of Michigan, E. Medical Center Drive 1500, Ann Arbor, 48109-0243, U.S.A.

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Watson, R.S., Hartman, M.E. (2009). Epidemiology of Critical Illness. In: Wheeler, D., Wong, H., Shanley, T. (eds) Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-921-9_2

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