Medscape February 23, 2023
Wearable electronic devices such as smart watches, worn by consumers to monitor their health, could interfere with the correct working of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), posing serious health risks to these patients.
Researchers at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, found that certain fitness trackers, such as smart watches, smart rings and smart scales, that emit an electrical current have the potential to essentially confuse CIEDs, devices including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, (CRTs), causing them to stop working.
Smart watches generated the highest level of interference; smart scales and smart rings generated lower levels.
Because of these findings, the researchers recommend against the use of these devices in this population due...
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