Hand Held Metal Detectors And Pacemakers

Hand held metal detector wands however the hand held scanner the tsa agent may use on you after you set off the metal detector contains a magnet which may momentarily interfere with.

Hand held metal detectors and pacemakers.

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. 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. By steven reinberg healthday reporter. Anecdotal reports had suggested that the electromagnetic field generated by the security scanners interfered.

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. Pacemakers icds ok in metal detectors. 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.

Do a hand pat search. Pacemakers and metal detector wands can finally co exist peacefully in a world where security is essential. Use a hand held security wand. Security devices won t set off implanted heart monitors.

From the webmd archives. May 20 2003 washington d c hundreds of thousands of. Metal detectors use various technologies involving magnetic fields to detect the presence of metal. If they must use a wand tell them that the search must be done quickly and not to hold the wand over your pacemaker.

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