Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks in dying patients: disturbing data from beyond the grave

Circulation. 2014 Jan 28;129(4):414-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.006939. Epub 2013 Nov 15.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; defibrillators, implantable; terminal care.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Defibrillators, Implantable / adverse effects*
  • Electric Countershock / adverse effects*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / epidemiology*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / mortality*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / epidemiology*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / mortality*