{"id":17126,"date":"2021-02-17T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T03:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/?p=17126\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T03:25:51","slug":"medical-doctors-underline-potential-risk-iphone-12-interference-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/medical-doctors-underline-potential-risk-iphone-12-interference-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Doctors Underline Potential Risk of iPhone 12 Interference With Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple’s\u00a0warning<\/a>\u00a0to keep the\u00a0iPhone 12<\/a>\u00a0away from cardiac devices due to electromagnetic interference was further underlined by U.S. cardiologists this week in a new report (via\u00a0NBC25 News<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Apple’s \u200ciPhone 12\u200c series includes an array of magnets that help align the phone on Apple’s\u00a0MagSafe<\/a>\u00a0charging accessory to maximize charging, and Apple\u00a0already advises<\/a>\u00a0users with implanted pacemakers and defibrillators to keep\u00a0iPhone<\/a>\u00a0and \u200cMagSafe\u200c\u200c accessories a safe distance away from such devices.<\/p>\n

To test the extent of the risk, Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist Gurjit Singh and his colleagues recently carried out further testing to see just how much of an influence the Apple products have.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Singh, more than 300,000 people in the U.S. undergo surgery to implant one of these devices each year, and around one in four smartphones sold last year was an \u200ciPhone 12\u200c. The cardiac devices have switches that respond to an external magnet to change how the device functions, which allows them to be controlled without the requirement of surgery.<\/p>\n

Curious about potential interference with electrical devices, Dr. Singh and his colleagues took an\u00a0iPhone 12 Pro<\/a>\u00a0and passed it over the chest of a patient with an implantable defibrillator.<\/p>\n

“When we brought the \u200ciPhone\u200c close to the patient’s chest the defibrillator was deactivated,” said Dr. Singh. “We saw on the external defibrillator programmer that the functions of the device were suspended and remained suspended. When we took the phone away from the patient’s chest, the defibrillator immediately returned to its normal function.”<\/p>\n

“We were all stunned,” he said. “We had assumed that the magnet would be too weak in a phone to trip the defibrillator\u2019s magnetic switch.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The findings are significant, since Dr. Singh is an expert in the use of devices such as implantable defibrillators that detect an irregular heartbeat and shock the heart back into a normal rhythm, and pacemakers that use electricity to keep the heart beating. Following the discovery, Dr. Singh and his colleagues immediately submitted a report of their findings to the\u00a0HeartRhythm<\/em>\u00a0medical journal that was published on January 4, 2021.<\/p>\n

“We believe our findings have profound implications on a large scale for the people who live daily with these devices, who without thinking, will place their phone in their shirt pocket or upper pocket or their coat \u2013 not knowing that it can cause their defibrillator or pacemaker to function in a way that could potentially be lethal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The comments underline medical evidence\u00a0published in January<\/a>\u00a0which cautioned that \u200c\u200ciPhone 12\u200c\u200c models and related \u200cMagSafe\u200c devices can “potentially inhibit lifesaving therapy in a patient” due to magnetic interference with implanted medical devices. Apple provides more information about this issue in the “Important safety information for iPhone<\/a>” section of the \u200c\u200ciPhone\u200c\u200c User Guide.<\/p>\n

Source:Medical Doctors Underline Potential Risk of iPhone 12 Interference With Pacemakers – MacRumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday February 7, 2021 4:11 am PST\u00a0by\u00a0Tim Hardwick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17129,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions\/17129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}