| Redefining life while forestalling death: living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after a sudden cardiac death experience. | |
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PMID: 11918101 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Secondary analysis is a resourceful approach for making further use of existing data sets to answer questions not previously addressed or to expand on content not specifically examined in the original study. Using Heideggerian hermeneutics, the author analyzed transcripts of the stories of individuals with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) from three of her earlier phenomenological studies to obtain a description of the experience of living with an ICD after a sudden cardiac death experience. Three related themes emerged: (a) losing control: technology as lifesaving yet changing everything; (b) getting on with living: regaining control or conditional acceptance; and (c) creating a new vision: transformation or tenuous truce. The constitutive pattern was redefining life while forestalling death. |
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Authors:
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Suzanne Steffan Dickerson |
Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Qualitative health research Volume: 12 ISSN: 1049-7323 ISO Abbreviation: Qual Health Res Publication Date: 2002 Mar |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2002-03-28 Completed Date: 2002-04-11 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9202144 Medline TA: Qual Health Res Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 360-72 Citation Subset: T |
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University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. |
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Activities of Daily Living
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psychology Adaptation, Psychological* Adult Aged Anecdotes as Topic Attitude to Death Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control* Defibrillators, Implantable* / adverse effects Female Humans Life Style Male Middle Aged Self Concept Survivors / psychology* United States Value of Life |
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