Unexpected cardiopulmonary arrest associated with influenza: our experience during the 2009 pandemic in Japan
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influenza: our experience during the 2009 pandemic in Japan Akihisa Okumura, Satoshi Nakagawa, Hisashi Kawashima, Takashi Muguruma, Osamu Saito, Jun-ichi Fujimoto, Chiaki Toida, Shuji Kuga, Toshihiro Imamura, Toshiaki Shimizu, Naomi Kondo, Tsuneo Morishima Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Division of Critical Care Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan. Department of Pediatrics, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. Correspondence: Akihisa Okumura, Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
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