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Objective: Implantable cardiac pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) have been introduced in the care of patients with cardiac dysrhythmias. Most dental practitioners demonstrate extreme caution when treating patients with ICDs. This paper presents a review of the available literature on these devices and how they interact with dental electrosurgery and ultrasonic device use.
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Eur Heart J
February 2015
Cardiology Service and Stroke Unit, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Pacemaker deactivation: withdrawal of support or active ending of life?
Theor Med Bioeth
December 2012
FOT 744, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
In spite of ethical analyses assimilating the palliative deactivation of pacemakers to commonly accepted withdrawings of life-sustaining therapy, many clinicians remain ethically uncomfortable with pacemaker deactivation at the end of life. Various reasons have been posited for this discomfort. Some cardiologists have suggested that reluctance to deactivate pacemakers may stem from a sense that the pacemaker has become part of the patient's "self.
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Cardiol J
May 2013
Section of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Role for staphylococci in misguided thrombus resolution of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
April 2008
Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Objective: Acute pulmonary emboli usually resolve within 6 months. However, in 0.1% to 3.
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