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Published on: February 28, 2012
Discontinuing implantable cardiac devices & the ERDs
1Ascension Health, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
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.
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