In Vivo Study of Electromagnetic Interference With Pacemakers Caused by Everyday Electric and Magnetic Fields

Dominik Stunder; Tobias Seckler; Stephan Joosten; Matthias Daniel Zink; Sarah Driessen; Thomas Kraus; Nikolaus Marx; Andreas Napp

doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.024558

In Vivo Study of Electromagnetic Interference With Pacemakers Caused by Everyday Electric and Magnetic Fields

Circulation. 2017 Feb 28;135(9):907-909. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.024558.

Authors

Dominik Stunder¹, Tobias Seckler¹, Stephan Joosten¹, Matthias Daniel Zink¹, Sarah Driessen¹, Thomas Kraus¹, Nikolaus Marx¹, Andreas Napp²

Affiliations

¹ From Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction, Institute of Occupational Medicine (D.S., T.S., S.J., S.D., T.K.), and Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine) (M.D.Z., N.M., A.N.), University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; and German Social Accident Insurance Institution for Energy, Textile, Electrical and Media Products Sector (BG ETEM), Köln, Germany (S.J.).
² From Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction, Institute of Occupational Medicine (D.S., T.S., S.J., S.D., T.K.), and Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine) (M.D.Z., N.M., A.N.), University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; and German Social Accident Insurance Institution for Energy, Textile, Electrical and Media Products Sector (BG ETEM), Köln, Germany (S.J.). anapp@ukaachen.de.

PMID: 28242642
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.024558

No abstract available

Keywords: arrhythmia; cardiac resynchronization therapy devices; clinical study; electromagnetic fields; pacemaker, artificial; power sources; threshold limit values.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Electricity*
Electromagnetic Fields*
Electromagnetic Phenomena*
Humans
Magnetic Fields*
Pacemaker, Artificial*