Friday, January 9, 2009

Children's cardiac intensive-care unit opens at Duke (USA)

A new $7 million state-of-the-art facility at Duke Children's Hospital opened Wednesday. The Cardiac Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is designed to improve patients' care by providing a more family-friendly environment. Duke pediatric cardiology surgeons performed 420 procedures in 2008, a 10 percent increase over the year before. About half of their patients are under the age of 1 - WRAL.com

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