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Study calls for wider testing of internal heart defibrillators.
Byline: Joe Robertson
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ When Delbert Wright was jolted awake before dawn on Nov. 22, it didn't occur to him that a 3-inch-long piece of medical technology embedded near his heart had probably just saved his life.
Wright, of Adrian, Mo., is one of 1,232 heart-attack survivors implanted with internal defibrillators since 1997 as part of a worldwide study.
On Tuesday, researchers released results of the study, saying the government should expand its criteria for the use of internal defibrillators so that many more people _ perhaps 300,000 more a year _ would be recommended for the potentially life-saving devices.
The findings, released at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, are to be published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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