TY  - JOUR
T1  - Defibrillators, deactivation, decisions, and dying : Comment on “patient preferences for deactivation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators”
AU  - Matlock DD, Allen LA
Y1  - 2013/03/11
N1  - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2130
JO  - JAMA Internal Medicine
SP  - 379
EP  - 380
VL  - 173
IS  - 5
N2  - 
In a medical culture where death is too often viewed as failure, clinicians and patients struggle to have high-quality discussions about deactivating an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). The implications of this inaction are not trivial. In approximately half of hospices over the course of a year, patients dying of incurable disease will be shocked by their ICDs.1 Multiple societies have made recent calls for increased communication around ICD deactivation.2- 3 However, exactly what form those conversations should take has yet to be determined.

SN  - 2168-6106
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2130
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2130
ER  -