Discontinuing implantable cardiac devices & the ERDs.
Ethics committees are use [sic] to questions concerning the withdrawal of life-support. Such questions become increasingly complex when that life-support is implantable, like a pacemaker. This essay seeks to address the question of under what, if any, circumstances it would be permissible to discontinue the use of such implantable devices.
Slosar
John Paul
JP
Ascension Health, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
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