Safety of screening procedures with hand-held metal detectors among patients with implanted cardiac rhythm devices: A cross-sectional analysis

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 587-592

  Jilek, Clemens ^a   Tzeis, Stylianos ^b   Vrazic, Hrvoje ^c   Semmler, Verena ^a   Andrikopoulos, Georgios ^b   Reents, Tilko ^a   Fichtner, Stephanie ^a   Ammar, Sonia ^a   Rassias, Ioannis ^b   Theodorakis, Georgios ^b   Weber, Stefan ^d   Hessling, Gabriele ^a   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^a   Kolb, Christof ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND HELD METAL DETECTOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80055078412     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-9-201111010-00005     Document Type: Article

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