St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia announced on Feb. 1 that it had had stopped conducting elective heart surgeries pending an internal review, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
The newspaper said that St. Christopher’s performed 50 to 60 open-heart surgeries per year that required a heart-bypass machine.
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