Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

The worldwide use of both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ... MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still contraindicated.

medical imaging equipment, and wind turbine generators. On the other hand, the easily shapeable bonded neodymium magnets made from the melt spinning process have proved particularly useful in ...

"Under certain conditions, magnets and electromagnetic fields might interfere with medical devices," Apple wrote. For example, it noted, "implanted pacemakers and defibrillators might contain ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead ... Must be used in conjunction with an MRI lead from St. Jude Medical.

Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite ... along with countless medical, military, and scientific uses. These advances come at a ...

University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine runs a similar initiative, namely a "Pacemaker Donation Program," that "provides heart patients at MCNH (The Medical Center, Navicent ...

The affected pacemakers are branded as having been made by St Jude Medical, which was acquired by Abbott earlier this year. Patients are being advised to ask their doctors about an available ...

may pose a risk to those with medical devices such as implanted pacemakers and defibrillators, as the sensors in those devices may respond to magnets and radios in the accessories or the phones.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A doctor at one Lowcountry hospital became the first heart specialist in the Carolinas to implant a new type of leadless pacemaker this week. Electrophysiologist ...