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Improvement in perioperative care in pediatric cardiac surgery by shifting the primary focus of treatment from cardiac output to perfusion pressure: Are beta stimulants still needed?

Amir-Reza Hosseinpour¹, Mathieu van Steenberghe¹, Marc-André Bernath², Stefano Di Bernardo³, Marie-Hélène Pérez⁴, David Longchamp⁴, Mirko Dolci², Yann Boegli², Nicole Sekarski³, Javier Orrit¹, Michel Hurni¹, René Prêtre¹, Jacques Cotting⁴

1 Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2 Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
3 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
4 Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Hospital of Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding Author: Jacques Cotting, Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Rue du Bugnon 46, Lausanne 1011, Switzerland. Email: