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Soaring Pacemaker Demand Spurs Controversial New Approach

Brian Owens · December 23, 2024 ·

When a female patient received a pacemaker at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and died shortly after with the brand-new and fully functioning device still in her chest, her grieving husband wondered whether the expensive and barely used technology could be donated to help someone else. Read more in Medscape.

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