Interference with cardiac pacemakers by cellular telephones

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1473-1479

  Hayes, David L ^a   Wang, Paul J ^b   Reynolds, Dwight W ^c   Mark Estes III, N A ^b   Griffith, John L ^b   Steffens, Rebecca A ^d   Carlo, George L ^d   Findlay, Gretchen K ^d   Johnson, Claudine M ^d  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d Health and Environmental Sciences Group Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIZZINESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030925632     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199705223362101     Document Type: Article

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