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Pediatric cardiac surgery has emerged as a separate subspecialty in cardiac surgery in this decade. The most important aspect for better outcome of congenital cardiac surgery is Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care. This is my humble effort to put all protocols that we followed successfully together in the form of a book to help new health centers, staff and trainees. This book is a product of years of experience in pediatric cardiac ICU with inputs from many contributors. This book was written as a record of day-to-day activities in PCICU, and it should not be considered as a reference book. In this endeavor, I sincerely thank all the contributors, my staff and teachers. I look forward to any feedback and constructive criticism from users, to which we will give due consideration in the future edition.

I would like to thank everyone who gave me suggestions and constructive criticism, while I prepared this book.