The safety of digital mobile cellular telephones with minute ventilation rate adaptive pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1451-1455

  Sparks, Paul B ^a   Mond, Harry G ^a   Joyner, Kenneth H ^b   Wood, Michael P ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital mobile telephones; pacemaker interference

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGITAL COMPUTER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; IMPEDANCE; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; TELEPHONE;

CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY VENTILATION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0029816916     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03157.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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