Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the Medicare Pacemaker Industry
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Cardiac pacemaker industry
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cardiac pacemakers
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Cardiac pacemaker industry
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cardiac pacemakers
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cardiac pacemakers
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Cardiac pacemaker industry
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781568069074
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Cardiac pacemaker industry
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Author : Kirk Jeffrey
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801876168
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, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices. Numerous small manufacturing firms jumped into pacemaker production but eventually fell by the wayside, leaving only three American companies in the business today. Jeffrey profiles pioneering heart surgeons, inventors from the realms of engineering and medical research, and business leaders who built heart-rhythm management into an industry with thousands of employees and annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.
Author : Katy Butler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451641982
Outlines a less invasive, more humane approach to end-of-life care, sharing the stories of the author's parents and explaining the political and technological factors that are interfering with patient preferences.