iPods and pacemakers
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- May
- 15
Can iPods cause a pacemaker to malfunction? The answer, at least according to a 17-year-old researcher, seems to be yes. Michigan student Jay Thaker, working with doctors at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute at Michigan State University, tested the effect that iPods had on 83 patients with pacemakers.
When held two inches from the patients’ chests for five to 10 seconds, iPods interfered with telemetry equipment monitoring the heart, caused implantable pacemakers to misread the heart’s pacing, and, in one case, caused the device to stop functioning.
The paper is being presented at the “Heart Rhythm Society’s”:http://www.hrsonline.org annual meeting in Denver.
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