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> In order to find out if their suspicions were true, Dr. Singh and his colleagues took an iPhone 12 Pro and passed it over the chest of a patient with an impla

• ganstyles 6y ago
  Haha, I was thinking this as well. But to their credit, they're doctors so presumably knew the patient wouldn't have an issue if the defib deactivated in that moment, and they were there in case anything bad happened. An implantable defib, for anyone who doesn't know, is more like a safety device in that it monitors and responds to events versus something like a pacemaker which needs to be on an responding at all times.
  • paulie_a 6y ago
    That is an important distinction. An ICD should rarely trigger. And when it does, oh boy you know it
• sander202 6y ago
  wouldn't suprise me, when tuning my ICD they ran all kinds of programs just to see what happens, totally freaked me out, my hartbeat went from 60 to 140 in 1 step, then they lowered it to 70 in steps of 10, now it is fixed at 50. except when I have a heart rhythm disturbance, then a program runs to try to outpace the disturbance by increading my heartrate by 10% in six steps. It is beyond weird
• paulie_a 6y ago
  It's honestly a fairly logical step. Turning off an ICD for a very short time and getting the data then would be a very quick process