Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old
by carbocation on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:02PM
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See also [1] for a case caused by the hard drive of a laptop.
Fundamentally, this is a consequence of the decision of manufacturers such as Medtronic to use a magnetic field to temporarily disable implantable cardioverters/defibrillators. Note that magnetic fields do different things for ICDs produced by different manufacturers.
Fundamentally, this is a consequence of the decision of manufacturers such as Medtronic to use a magnetic field to temporarily disable implantable cardioverters/defibrillators. Note that magnetic fields do different things for ICDs produced by different manufacturers.
[1] = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22353166
[2] = http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/585151_2