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Pacemaker (and other medical devices, insulin pumps, neural stimulators, defibrilators) disabling or safe mode via magnet will not go away, even with more bluet
by corty 5y ago
Pacemaker (and other medical devices, insulin pumps, neural stimulators, defibrilators) disabling or safe mode via magnet will not go away, even with more bluetooth-enabled devices. First, a magnet is easily available in any EMT's backpack for exactly that reason, and many households might also have one somewhere. Second, bluetooth control apps are extremely device-specific, so you have to find out which device you want to talk to first, then get the ultra-special, secret, expensive app from the manufacturer. Third, you need to pair your bluetooth pacemaker. How do you do that, you ask? You tap thrice with a magnet to get it into pairing mode... (or something, it depends on the device, but almost always you do something with a magnet).
Disabling is just putting the magnet permanently onto the reed contact, and that won't change because every EMT knows to do that. Other control functions are some tap-pattern.