Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks in dying patients: disturbing data from beyond the grave.
From Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Rachel
R
Lampert
D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*
Editorials; defibrillators, implantable; terminal care