Magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac devices: How safe is safe enough?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 470-472

  Reynolds, Matthew R ^a   Zimetbaum, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RHYTHM MANAGEMENT DEVICE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEART RHYTHM; HEATING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

EID: 80053469437     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-7-201110040-00010     Document Type: Editorial

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