Machines in our hearts : the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care /
Annotation Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines - small computers, in fact - deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors,...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001.
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