Know Your Heart and Your Pacemaker Now and Forever
Category: WELLNESS
Since the implantation of the first pacemaker, these devices have saved thousands of lives. They cannot, or course, fend off death forever. Patients should have the option of deactivating their devices to avoid painful shocks at death -- a time so many hope will be peaceful.
By Mary F. Mulcahy, Contributor
Associate Professor, Department of Hematology Oncology, Northw..., 2013-02-14