MY APPROACH to device therapy when the battery runs low (replacement or no replacement).
Harvard Medical School; Director, Cardiac Pacing and Implantable Device Therapies, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mosweeney@partners.org.
Michael Owen
MO
Sweeney
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making / Q000379:methods*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020878:Device Removal; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004868:Equipment Failure; D017743:Equipment Reuse; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D018570:Risk Assessment