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Driving with an ICD raises significant ethical, legal, and quality-of-life concerns requiring further exploration.
This review highlights the complex ethical, legal, and quality-of-life considerations for patients with ICDs who wish to operate a motor vehicle.
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Supports caution in driving recommendations for ICD patients; leaves open development of ethical theoretical frameworks.
Patients with internal cardioverter-defibrillators experience many issues after implantation. One issue is operating a motor vehicle. This issue has many ethical, legal and quality-of-life concerns that must be addressed by the patient, health care providers, and society. The legal and ethical issues surrounding patients with internal cardioverter-defibrillators will be explored using an ethically based theoretical framework.
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Finch et al. (1997) conducted a review in Internal cardioverter-defibrillators. Driving with an internal cardioverter-defibrillator was evaluated. Driving with an internal cardioverter-defibrillator presents significant ethical, legal, and quality-of-life concerns that require exploration using an ethically based theoretical framework.
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