Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators in Terminal Care
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Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Permanent Pacemakers in Patients With Terminal Illness
The recently published 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities1 include a discussion of ethical issues surrounding the deactivation of pacemakers, implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICDs), and CRT devices in patients who are terminally ill. The authors rightly note that most clinicians make an ethical distinction between deactivating an ICD and deactivating a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-3924(99)00038-x