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Default Inappropriate ICD Shocks Caused by External Electrical Noise

On Apr 14, 6:55*am, David Lesher wrote:
Joseph Gwinn writes:
I saw this article in The New England Journal of Medicine. *Here is the
URL, unfortunately behind a paywall. *
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/13/1363
The gist is that a danish doctor had a patient who was getting
inappropriate cardiac shocks from an ICD (implantable cardioverter-
defibrillator) while in the shower, which turned out to be due to bad
house wiring causing a 50 Hz leakage current from showerhead to floor
drain. *


I suspect it was a point-of-use waterheater in the head. Unknown
in the US; they are seen elsewhere.

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They have them here in the US. They're just not well known.
Karl