Cardiac defibrillators, Kant, and the categorical imperative

[...]the development of low-cost simple devices, "shock-boxes" specifically designed to be used only a few times in patients without previous arrhythmic events, could reduce significantly the cost of the strategy, allowing a more frequent use of CDI in this setting.3 At this turning point, our main challenge is to universalize such potentially life-saving therapy to all those who really need them and, as we paraphrase Kant, to act according to a maxim whereby you do what should become a universal law.