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Dear EditorHaving just recently retired, I have been looking back over the years as far as paediatric cardiac nursing is concerned. The biggest changes and improvements took place in the 70’s with the start of the use of prostaglandin to keep the arterial duct open in new-born babies and then the introduction of echocardiography. Suddenly, it was no longer necessary to carry out cardiac catheterisations and emergency operations on gravely sick babies in the middle of the night. Instead, we could stabilise their condition, make a diagnosis with much less trauma and they could wait to go for surgery at a time when surgeons were wide awake!
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