From the April 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
“Obviously, we can’t perform surgery every time we need to control one of these devices, which is why they are engineered to allow us to use strong magnets over the chest to control their function,” said cardiologist and lead investigator Dr. Gurjit Singh in a statement. “So, we began to wonder if the magnet in the iPhone 12 would affect the safe operation of these devices.”
The researchers immediately drafted a manuscript of their findings that caught the attention of the FDA and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) upon being published. It also was seen by Apple, which published a warning on its website in late January.
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