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Cardiac device wearers should keep distance from smartphones

June 22, 2015

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Patients should hold phone to opposite ear and not store phone in pocket over device. A second study advises limiting exposure to high voltage power lines.

Cardiac device wearers should keep a safe distance from smartphones to avoid unwanted painful shocks or pauses in function, reveals research presented today at EHRA EUROPACE — CARDIOSTIM 2015 by Dr Carsten Lennerz, first author and cardiology resident in the Clinic for Heart and Circulatory Diseases, German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany.

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