"Just because we can doesn't mean we should": Views of nurses on deactivation of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-252

  Kramer, Daniel B ^a   Ottenberg, Abigale L ^b   Gerhardson, Samantha ^c   Mueller, Luke A ^c   Kaufman, Sharon R ^d   Koenig, Barbara A ^b   Mueller, Paul S ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Device deactivation; Ethics; Implantable cardioverter defibrillators; Nursing; Pacemakers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEFIBRILLATOR DEACTIVATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER DEACTIVATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; INFORMED CONSENT; MINNESOTA; NURSES; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84855590123     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-011-9596-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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