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Interference of electrocardiographic recordings by a mobile telephone

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Malcolm Brodlie, Dr Jonathan Wyllie

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Abstract

The ownership of mobile telephones is now almost universal amongst the teenage population of the United Kingdom. Such telephones are a potential source of electromagnetic interference to medical equipment. We describe a case of troublesome interference with an electrocardiogram recording in a teenage patient whose mobile telephone was left switched on during a visit to hospital. This is likely to be a common reason for poor quality electrocardiographic recordings.

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Author(s): Brodlie M, Robertson D, Wyllie J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Cardiology in the Young

Year: 2007

Volume: 17

Issue: 3

Pages: 328-329

ISSN (print): 1047-9511

ISSN (electronic): 1467-1107

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1047951107000443

DOI: 10.1017/S1047951107000443

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