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Interference of electrocardiographic recordings by a mobile telephone
Malcolm Brodlie1, Daniel Robertson, Jonathan Wyllie
1Neonatal Unit, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. m.j.brodlie@ncl.ac.uk
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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