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Does Everyone Need High Technology Intervention Before They Die?
- Source :
- Seminars in Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery; Spring2024, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p47-53, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- A persistent problem in cardiothoracic surgery, as in all of medicine, is when to offer or to withhold expensive technologies. The ethical requirement of balancing harms and benefits is often difficult to achieve. The use of LVADs is an example of such technologies, and when to offer it is explored in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10430679
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Seminars in Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176393746
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1053/j.semtcvs.2022.02.012