mobile phones interference with st.jude valves...

[srinivassusu]

hi friends, I Read in LG's KP 199 model mobile manualthat mobile phones may effect the opearation of cardiac pace makers and other medically implanted equipment. Is there any chance of potential interference with St. Jude mechanical valves......?


SRINIVAS
Aneurysmal dilation of aortic root and ascending aorta with dissection,BAV,mod.AR.
Mod. Bental DC Bono surgery with#25 mm St.Jude medical valved conduit
Surgeon: Dr K.s. Neelakandan,Dr.Sridar CARE Hospital, Bangara Hills,Hyderabad,India

 

[Nupur]

I doubt if it will interfere with valves, since valves work purely on the pressure, no electrical component. I can imagine interference with pacemakers though.

 

[epstns]

I'll have to agree with Nupur. The only way a phone could interact is if there was some extremely sensitive electronic circuitry inside the device (such as possibly pacemakers or defibrillators). The St. Jude valve is, from an electronic point of view, completely passive. It has no electronic circuits, thus there is nothing to disrupt.

On a side note, I have been a licensed ham radio operator for many years, and I know many hams who have pacemakers. None of them have any problems with the radio interacting with the pacemaker. Just the medical field being super cautious, like not allowing use of cell phones in entire hospital buildings. Their wireless networks are radios. too, and they do not prohibit those. . .

 

[jax]

I was told to use my phone on the opposite side that my pacemaker was implanted on. But that was all I was told. They didn't really say it would cause much of a problem. I really wouldn't know whether it would cause interference though as I can't tell qhen I am pacing or not.

 

[ALCapshaw2]

I doubt if it will interfere with valves, since valves work purely on the pressure, no electrical component. I can imagine interference with pacemakers though.

I concur with both statements.
I can't imagine a RadioTelephone interfering with a mechanical Valve.

'Al Capshaw'

 

[Lynlw]

I was told to use my phone on the opposite side that my pacemaker was implanted on. But that was all I was told. They didn't really say it would cause much of a problem. I really wouldn't know whether it would cause interference though as I can't tell qhen I am pacing or not.

I THINK the cells phones just affect medical things with electrical parts, (if they affect anything)
That's what Justin was told when he had his pacer too, (well when cell phones got to be more common) Was try to use the phone on the other ear, he never had a problem when he had both the cell phone and pacer (it is out now) The ONLY thing that we know of that ever affected Justin's pacer was SOME lazar tag games. His pacemaker was in his abdomen and when they would do the monthly testing it would pace his diaphram and feel like hic cups. Sometimes when he played lazar tag he noticed the same feeling (when he ws shot)so we asked his card and they called medtronic, and the company that made the game and noone had heard of a connection BUT since lazar tag was pretty new at the time and most players were kids, (and MOST people with pacers were older) everyone decided this was something to keep an eye on and watch to see if there were more reports. Not all systems affected it, so if he felt a hiccup feeling he would quit playing (mainly because he wasn't paced very often, during the times he was 100% paced, he just couldn't play)

 

[Bina]

Agree with others....the St. Jude valve is mechanical in nature, no electrical components.

 

[Philip B]

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This is a joke...right?

-Philip

 

[Cooker]

I have that phone and a mechanical St Jude valve ... the only time my heart skips a beat is when I get my bill

 

[srinivassusu]

No philip iam not joking. my wife is fighting with me not to use mobile .Clarifying seriously yaar. Any way thanks to all

SRINIVAS

Aneurysmal dilation of aortic root and ascending aorta with dissection,BAV,mod.AR.
Mod. Bental DC Bono surgery with#25 mm St.Jude medical valved conduit
SurgeonsS: Dr K.s. Neelakandan,Dr.Sridar,Dr.Amreesh &Dr.Jagannatham CARE Hospital, Bangara Hills,Hyderabad,India

 

[Philip B]

Serious??

Serious??

Well, if you're really serious, consider some logical differences in a St. Jude valve and other kinds of implanted medical devices.

What makes your St. Jude valve work? Is it a mechanical device that works with the blood pumping action of your heart or an electrical/electronic device?

My St. Jude valve works with the blood pumping action of my heart; there's nothing electrical about the valve that could possibly be impacted by the use of a cell phone or any other electrical/electronic device.

Devices like pacemakers are electrical. It wasn't so long ago that resturants used to post signs warning people about the use of microwave ovens because of potential interference with pacemakers.

On Tuesday, I had to have MRI's done of my head and neck. The paperwork I had to do prior to the MRI's asked about implanted mechanical devices and I reported the presence of my St. Jude valve. The technicians didn't even give my St. Jude valve any thought at all. I suspect they would have reacted differently if I had reported the presence of a pacemaker.

I can't even begin to imagine why anyone would be concerned with cell phone use causing a St. Jude valve to stop working.

-Philip