title: Discontinuing implantable cardiac devices & the ERDs.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Ascension Health, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: John Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Slosar
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011788:Quality of Life; D018570:Risk Assessment; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics*