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Angioplasty
Cardiac Patients and Doctors Implore State to Abandon Dangerous Heart Experiment
November 9th, 2007
Patients and doctors from Deborah Heart and Lung Center are speaking out in opposition to a controversial decision by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) to continue a demonstration project that permits elective angioplasty in facilities without life-saving cardiac surgery backup teams. Undeterred by the NJ Supreme Court, which recently expressed its grave concern with the demonstration project, the New Jersey DHSS continues to put NJ residents at risk. Other states, including Maryland and Massachusetts, have studied the feasibility and safety of angioplasty without cardiac surgery backup and determined that the risks were too great to permit...
Source: Biotech Law Weekly (2007-11-09)
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