Cardiac implantable pacemakers' work can be disturbed by iPod music devices, because iPods interfere with the electromagnetic heart equipment.
This study was held at Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute and was presented by 17 years old Okemos, Michigan high school student Jay Thaker. He presented the results of this study during Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting in Denver. The study was held at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute at Michigan State University.
In average 77 years old 100 patients took part in the study, all of them were using pacemakers. When iPods were held 2 inches away from patient's chest for 5-10 seconds, electrical interference was detected half of the time. Interference was also detected when iPods were held 18 inches away from chest. During the study one pacemaker even stopped working.
iPod is the only digital music device that was involved in the study.
Thaker said, that iPod interference "can lead physicians to misdiagnose actual heart function"Â, but since most of pacemaker using patients don't use iPods, misdiagnosis will be a very rare case.
By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ
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