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Patient and spouse acceptance and adaptation to implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Colette Pycha, RN, MSN, Joseph R. Calabrese, MD, A. Dale Gulledge, MD and James D. Maloney, MD

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1990, 57 (5) 441-444;

Surveys revealed AICD patients and families share a mix of relief and apprehension.