Electromagnetic interference in a cardiac pacemaker during cauterization with the coagulating, not cutting mode

Basem Abdelmalak¹, Narasimhan Jagannathan², Faisal D Arain³, Susan Cymbor⁴, Robert McLain⁵, John E Tetzlaff^6
1 Department of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
² Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Memorial ­Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
³ Department of Veteran Affairs, Louis Stokes Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Tucson, AZ, USA
⁵ Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
⁶ Department of General Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Correspondence Address:
Basem Abdelmalak
Cleveland Clinic, Department of General Anesthesiology, E-31, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195
USA

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9185.86600