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Finding Your Way: A Medical Ethics Handbook For Patients And Families, Katrina Bramstedt
Finding Your Way: A Medical Ethics Handbook For Patients And Families, Katrina Bramstedt
Katrina A. Bramstedt
A medical ethics book geared for the lay audience. Current books in the marketplace are for medical professionals, academics, or students. This book is meant as a handbook for patients, families, and caretakers. The book will be of interest to those patients and families confronting major health-care decisions and to the professionals who work with these patients and families.
Deactivating Implanted Cardiac Devices In Terminally Ill Patients: Practices And Attitudes, Paul Mueller, Sarah Jenkins, Katrina Bramstedt, David Hays
Deactivating Implanted Cardiac Devices In Terminally Ill Patients: Practices And Attitudes, Paul Mueller, Sarah Jenkins, Katrina Bramstedt, David Hays
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Background: Clinicians may receive requests to deactivate pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in terminally ill patients. Methods: We describe practices and attitudes regarding deactivation of pacemakers and ICDs in terminally ill patients among physicians, nurses, and others who manage treatment of patients with implanted cardiac devices and among field representatives of device manufacturers. A Web-based survey was provided to Heart Rhythm Society members and to representatives of two manufacturers of implantable cardiac devices. Measurements were the answers of 787 respondents. Results: Of the respondents, 86.8% reported involvement in requests for ICD deactivation and 77.6% reported involvement in pacemaker deactivation (P …
Ethical Issues In Palliative Care Research, Neil Macdonald, Charles Weijer
Ethical Issues In Palliative Care Research, Neil Macdonald, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
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