Octo- and nonagenarians’ outlook on life and death when living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: a cross-sectional study

Octo- and nonagenarians’ outlook on life and death when living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Elderly individuals are increasingly represented among patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), but data describing life with an ICD are scarse among octo- and nonagenarians. Moreover, few studies have reported those elderly patients’ perspective on timly disc...

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Main Authors: Ingela Thylén, Debra K. Moser, Anna Strömberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
Subjects:
Attitudes
Deactivation
End-of-life
Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Knowledge
Nonagenarians
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-018-0942-9

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