Defibrillators save lives, don't diminish quality of life
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of life, say researchers from Duke University Medical Centre...
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