Do media players cause interference with pacemakers?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 653-657

  Thaker, Jay P ^a   Patel, Mehul B ^a   Shah, Ashok J ^a   Liepa, Valdis V ^c   Brunett, Joseph D ^c   Jongnarangsin, Krit ^d   Gardiner, Josephc ^b   Thakur, Ranjan ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TELEMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 73249131990     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20625     Document Type: Article

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