Electromagnetic interference with pacemakers caused by portable media players

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 538-544

  Thaker, Jay P ^a   Patel, Mehul B ^a   Jongnarangsin, Krit ^a,b   Liepa, Valdis V ^a,c   Thakur, Ranjan K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INTERFERENCE; FEMALE; FIELD EMISSION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IPOD DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY;

AGED; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TELEMETRY;

EID: 40849146977     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.01.028     Document Type: Article

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