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- Title
The next big epidemic? Device shutdowns.
- Authors
Ecarnot, Fiona; Mouhat, Basile; Giffard, Mathilde; Pillet, Martin; Seronde, Marie-France
- Abstract
Surprisingly, in the device's main menu, the physician can switch the whole device off (which would result in almost immediate death), but there is no possibility to mute the alarms. Take this recent case from our department as an example: our patient, let's call him Mr. Smith, was implanted with a HeartMate™ device in 2015 as destination therapy for advanced heart failure. Maybe the next big pandemic will be an epidemic of shutdowns-switching off devices we previously implanted, to let our patients go.
- Subjects
HEART assist devices; IMPLANTABLE cardioverter-defibrillators; ARTIFICIAL hearts; SCIENCE fiction films; EPIDEMICS
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p238
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-021-06584-y