Defibrillators may have little benefit for older, sicker patients

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

Defibrillators are commonly recommended to patients with heart failure to prevent sudden cardiac death, but beyond having heart failure, there is a lack of criteria to identify the appropriate patients for this therapy. read more

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