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Outcomes of in-hospital paediatric cardiac arrest from a tertiary hospital in a low-income African country

Nneka Edwards-JacksonDepartment of Paediatrics, Division of Hospital Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Krysten NorthDepartment of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Msandeni ChiumeDepartment of Paediatrics, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Wisdom NakangaMalawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Charles SchubertDepartment of Paediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA;Department of Paediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Amber HathcockDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Ajib PhiriCollege of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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Michelle EckerleDepartment of Paediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA;Department of Paediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7716-288X
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Pages 11-15 | Received 05 Nov 2018, Accepted 10 Jan 2019, Published online: 04 Feb 2019

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