Can someone please answer this, when a
person has a defibulator or pace maker in
their body and dies. The funeral home will
take it out and (so they say) return it to
the manufacture. My question is, does the
manufacture pay the funeral home for this
equipment? If so, why doesn't the family
get the money rather then the funeral
home? Does the manufacture reuse these
devises, and resell them as new?
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crippledcowgirl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 03-31-08 14:45pm
hmm interesting topic. I just received my
defibulator 2 years ago. The doctors
never mentioned anything about this. I
will have to ask Medtronic (the makers of
my model) and see what they say.
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Pika
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 47 Location: Australia
Posted: 05-15-08 07:31am
Yes, they do implant a second hand
pacemaker to some patients. I was told by
my cardiologist in 1994.
