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The Decision to Withdraw in Children With Ventricular Assist Devices

Authors :
Seth A. Hollander
Danton S. Char
Source :
The American Journal of Bioethics. 19:61-62
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2019.

Abstract

As ventricular assist devices (VADs), a form of mechanical circulatory support, become standard therapy for end-stage heart failure in children (O'Connor and Rossano 2014), there is ongoing discuss...

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Subjects :
Heart transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Health Policy
medicine.medical_treatment
MEDLINE
06 humanities and the arts
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
medicine.disease
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Heart failure
Circulatory system
medicine
cardiovascular diseases
060301 applied ethics
Heart-Assist Devices
Intensive care medicine
business
Standard therapy

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ISSN :
15360075 and 15265161
Volume :
19
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The American Journal of Bioethics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........2e5dc4f16e63cf12f0dddd26d6141df6
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2018.1563655
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