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  1. Coordinator, Critical Care Services Montreal Children’s Hospital, Associate Professor, School of Nursing McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Franco A. Carnevale RN, PhD

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  1. Medical Center, Div. of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Burnet Avenue 3333, Cincinnati, 45229, U.S.A.

    Derek S. Wheeler

  2. Medical Center, Div. of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Burnet Avenue 3333, Cincinnati, 45229, U.S.A.

    Hector R. Wong

  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.

    Thomas P. Shanley

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Carnevale, F.A. (2009). Nursing Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. 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_8

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