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- Title
WHAT TO DO WHEN THE BATTERY RUNS OUT.
- Authors
Guevin, Benedict M.
- Abstract
I recently published two articles on pacemakers.1 My focus in both articles was on the moral permissibility of deactivating the pacemaker at the end of life. But an attentive reader sent me an email with the gentle reminder that I failed to discuss in either article whether it is ethical to allow the battery that powers the pacemaker to run out when a person has dementia or Alzheimer's disease or is terminally ill. With people living longer, and with everincreasing uses of pacemakers, what to do in such cases has become a growing and confusing issue.
- Subjects
PACEMAKER cells; ALKALINE batteries; DEMENTIA; ALZHEIMER'S disease; THERMAL batteries
- Publication
Ethics & Medics, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1071-3778
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/em20164122