From Guidelines to Lifelines An accomplished specialist with a global impact helps sick kids get the best pediatric advanced life support

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2015 DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS ANNUAL REPORT

Clinical practice guidelines may not sound like the high drama of action films, but when Dr. Allan de Caen chairs a guideline writing committee he knows real lives are stake. He recalls kids in cardiac arrest, in need of life-saving resuscitation, and how those kids “come back and they see you six weeks, six months, six years later — and you