Ethical Analysis of Withdrawing Ventricular Assist Device Support

OBJECTIVE: To describe a series of patients with heart failure supported with a ventricular assist device (VAD) who requested (or whose surrogates requested) withdrawal of VAD support and the legal and ethical aspects pertaining to these requests. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed th...

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Hauptverfasser: Mueller, Paul S., Swetz, Keith M., Freeman, Monica R., Carter, Kari A., Crowley, Mary Eliot, Severson, Cathy J. Anderson, Park, Soon J., Sulmasy, Daniel P.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931614/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584919
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4065/mcp.2010.0113
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