May 8, 2024 Routine Flu Shot Leads to Life-Saving Heart Surgery for Second Grader: ‘Unthinkable’

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Kelly Wheeler Thibault, RN, MSN, CPNP, Nurse Practitioner, Children’s Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center on the day of Lily’s discharge.

Denise Leonard and her three kids had a ritual every fall — they would get their flu shots, then go pick out their Halloween costumes.

In October 2023, her daughter Lily Diver, now 9, was looking forward to choosing her Mal costume from Disney’s Descendants. As usual, they first stopped at RWJBarnabas Health in Bayonne, New Jersey, to be seen by Dr. Vincent Serafino. Read more at people.com.

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Rajiv Verma, MD

Donald Putman, MD - Division Chief Pediatric Cardiology at Cooperman Barnabas Medical

Rajiv Verma, MD - Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Director, Children's Heart Center at Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

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