Defibrillators may have little benefit for older people with comorbidities
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 18:35
in Health & Medicine
Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in CMAJ by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf.
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