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Nursing diagnoses for automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing : DCCN
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) represents an exciting new technological advance in treating patients with recurrent malignant ventricular arrhythmias. The nursing care of patients undergoing this treatment modality requires early identification of nursing diagnoses so that appropriate interventions may be implemented.