Bridget A Tracy
Biographic Data
| ID | 9640074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget A Tracy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget A |
| FAMILY NAME | Tracy |
| SIGNATURE | TRACY B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Discovery |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“But I Have a Pacer…There Is No Point in Engaging in Hypothetical Scenarios”
In this case report, we describe a woman with advancing dementia who still retained decisional capacity and was able to clearly articulate her request for deactivation of her implanted cardiac pacemaker—a scenario that would result in her death. In this case, the patient had the autonomy to make her decision, but clinicians at an outside hospital refused to deactivate her pacemaker even though they were in unanimous agreement that the patient had…
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“But I Have a Pacer…There Is No Point in Engaging in Hypothetical Scenarios”
In this case report, we describe a woman with advancing dementia who still retained decisional capacity and was able to clearly articulate her request for deactivation of her implanted cardiac pacemaker—a scenario that would result in her death. In this case, the patient had the autonomy to make her decision, but clinicians at an outside hospital refused to deactivate her pacemaker even though they were in unanimous agreement that the patient had…
Autonomy (1 work) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Medical diagnosis (1 work) · Medical emergency (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (1 work) · Pathology (1 work) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (1 work) · Psychology (1 work)