Pacemaker deactivation: Withdrawal of support or active ending of life?

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 421-433

  Huddle, Thomas S ^a   Amos Bailey, F ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Medical ethics; Pacemaker deactivation; Physician assisted suicide; Withdrawal of support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHYSICIANS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84873184135     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-012-9213-5     Document Type: Article

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