Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 10 , Pages 1432-1436 , October 2009

Clinically significant magnetic interference of implanted cardiac devices by portable headphones

  • Sinjin Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Kevin Fu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Tadayoshi Kohno, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
    • ,
  • Benjamin Ransford, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • William H. Maisel, MD, MPH, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Medical Device Safety Institute, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. William H. Maisel, Medical Device Safety Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 185 Pilgrim Road, Baker 4, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Received 2 May 2009 ,Accepted 2 July 2009.

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PII: S1547-5271(09)00740-1

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.003

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 10 , Pages 1432-1436 , October 2009

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