Surrogates often make call to deactivate heart devices

By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have implanted heart devices rarely have advance directives indicating whether they want them deactivated near the end of life, according to a new study. Mueller also recommended those patients have a palliative medicine consultation.



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