Carly C. Barron, MSc; Andre Y. Denault, PhD,ABIM-CCM; and Manoj M. Lalu MD, PhD
Carly C Barron is a faculty member in medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Andre Denault is a faculty member in the Department of Cardiac Anesthesiology,Montreal Heart Institute, Division of Critical Care of the Department ofMedicine, CentreHospitalier de l’Université de Montréal and issupported by institutional departmental funds.
Manoj Lalu is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Anesthesiology, TheOttawa Hospital, Regenerative Medicine Program, The Ottawa Hospital ResearchInstitute andis supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundationof Canad
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