Hearts and Minds: The Novick Cardiac Alliance and the Children of Ukraine

Lviv was bombed while we were there, but we operated on six kids during that time. Three newborns, one 17 days old, one nine days old, and another who was eight days old. We did two infants who weren’t quite five months old yet, and there was a three-and-a-half-year-old toddler with heart disease, who was so bad off that if he walked more than about 50 steps, he would faint. So we operated on six kids, and everything was fine.”