Apple’s warning to keep the iPhone 12 away from card devices due to electromagnetic interference was further confirmed by U.S. cardiologists this week in a new medical journal report (via NBC25 News).
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Apple’s iPhone 12 series includes a series of magnets that help align the phone on Apple’s MagSafe charging accessory to increase cost, and Apple is already advising users with step-by-step devices and defibrillators installed to keep iPhone and MagSafe safe devices a safe distance away from such devices.
To test the level of risk, cardiologist Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute Gurjit Singh and his colleagues conducted further experiments to see what impact Apple’s results have.
According to the report, more than 300,000 people in the U.S. undergo surgery to replace one of these devices each year, and about one in four smartphones that were used. last year sold the iPhone 12. The card machines have switches that respond to an external magnet to change the way the machine works, allowing them to be controlled without the need for surgery.
Interesting about a possible intervention with electrical devices, Dr. Sign and his colleagues took an iPhone 12 Pro and handed it over to a patient’s chest with a portable defibrillator.
“When we brought the iPhone near the patient’s chest the defibrillator was turned off,” Dr. Singh said. “We saw on the external defibrillator program that the device’s functions were interrupted and stopped. When we removed the phone from the patient’s chest, the defibrillator immediately returned to its normal function. . “
“We were all horrified,” he said. “We had assumed that the magnet would be too weak in a phone to traverse the defibrillator’s magnetic field.”
The findings are important, as Dr. Singh is an expert in using devices such as portable defibrillators that detect an irregular heartbeat and bring the heart shock to a normal rhythm, and pacemakers that using electricity to keep the heart going. Following the findings, Dr. Singh and his colleagues immediately reported their findings to the group. HeartRhythm medical journal published on January 4, 2021.
“We believe that our decisions have a huge scale of impact on the people who live every day with these devices, which, without thinking, will put their phone in their pocket. shirt or top pocket or coat – unaware it can cause their defibrillator or pacemaker to work in a potentially lethal manner. “
The findings add to evidence published in January that warned that iPhone 12 models and related devices MagSafe may “inhibit life-saving treatment in patients” due to magnetic blockage by medical devices. was applied. Apple provides more information on this issue in the “Important safety information for iPhone” section of the iPhone User Guide.