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The implantable cardioverter defibrillator: patient and family education
1Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA.
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing : DCCN
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
Patients undergoing implantation of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) have many questions and concerns about the device and how it will affect their lives. Teaching them about the ICD to prepare them for discharge is a nursing challenge.