Can patients opt to turn off implantable cardioverter-defibrillators near the end of life?

Cleve Clin J Med. 2016 Feb;83(2):97-8. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.15007.

M Motaz Baibars¹, M Chadi Alraies², Amjad Kabach³, Marc Pritzker^{4

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¹ Department of Hospital Medicine, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, MD, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. E-mail: alrai005@umn.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA.
⁴ Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Biomedical Innovation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
⁵ Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Service, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

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