Hand Held Metal Detectors And Pacemakers

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Hand held metal detectors and pacemakers. However your pacemaker s metal parts may set off metal detector alarms. Metal detectors for airport and facility security applications can be either portals that a person walks through or can be hand held wands that are passed over a person s body. The question of whether pacemakers present a safety issue in relation to metal detectors is one which we have paid close attention to over the years. This entry was posted in hand held detectors useful tips and advice walk through metal detectors.

Pacemakers and icds may in fact set off the metal detector alarm though usually they do not but that doesn t cause any problem with the implantable devices. Anecdotal reports had suggested that the electromagnetic field generated by the security scanners interfered. We are not aware of any report of a hobby type metal detector ever interfering with a pacemaker or other electronic medical device or having any other adverse health effect. May 20 2003 washington d c hundreds of thousands of.

Pacemakers icds ok in metal detectors. By steven reinberg healthday reporter. Do a hand pat search. Metal detectors use various technologies involving magnetic fields to detect the presence of metal.

If it s held over your pacemaker for too long wand could temporarily affect your pacemaker. Pacemakers and metal detector wands can finally co exist peacefully in a world where security is essential. If they must use a wand tell them that the search must be done quickly and not to hold the wand over your pacemaker. 31 healthday news heart patients with pacemakers or implanted defibrillators will find comfort from a german study that suggests that the handheld metal detectors used at airports won t cause the medical devices to malfunction.

From the webmd archives. Using hand held metal detectors for security screening is safe for patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators new study results suggest. Brandon allred how a garrett pd 6500i can help increase your safety.