Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care

SKU: 866065159_2

Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Product Description

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...