On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model pacemakers (Affinity, Entity, Integrity, Identity, Sustain, Frontier, ...
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2008;6(6):823-832. In a more recent study, 82 PM patients underwent a total of 115 MRI scans at 1.5 T with SAR of less than 1.5 W/kg. [17] All devices were reprogrammed ...
Both patients and health care professionals should be aware of potential pacemaker interactions in the environment, since cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are sensitive to many kinds of ...
Protocol for studying resetting: we first introduce single extrastimuli during tachycardia, starting at a coupling interval 10 ms less than the TCL, and decreasing the coupling interval of the ...
The function of cardiac implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers can be affected by direct irradiation of the device during radiotherapy. (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 3.0/Lucien Monfils) When a ...