Implantable cardioverter defibrillator implant-explant-implant case study: Addressing the psychological adjustment to multiple shocks

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 274-276

  Kovacs, Adrienne H ^a   Feigofsky, Suzanne ^b   Goff, J Sean ^b   Saidi, Arwa S ^b   Curtis, Anne B ^c   Conti, Jamie B ^b   Sears, Samuel F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Explantation; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Psychological; Shock anxiety; Therapy

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXPLANT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REIMPLANTATION; SHOCK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33744970749     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960290610     Document Type: Article

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