Defibrillator may not help many with heart failure
U. S. News & World Report as reported by Health Day, March 16, 2009 – By Ed Edelson
Defibrillators give little help to sicker patients
Reuters UK, March 16, 2009 – By Julie Steenhuysen
Implantable defibrillators, which protect against deadly heart rhythms, may offer little benefit for older people who have other serious health problems at the time of heart failure, U.S. researchers said. Leads author Dr. Soko Setoguchi, Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses her team’s findings. The study appears in the recent issues of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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