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Artefactual atrial flutter due to interference from a portable media device

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2015

Dipankar Gupta ,
Arwa Saidi  and
Randall M. Bryant
Dipankar Gupta*
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Arwa Saidi
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Randall M. Bryant
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America Pediatric Cardiovascular Center, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: D. Gupta, MD, Congenital Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer Road, HD 313, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States of America. Tel: 352 273 5422; Fax: 352 392 0547; E-mail: dgupta@peds.ufl.edu
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Abstract

Portable media devices are widely used by today’s youth. When used in hospitals, these devices can produce artefactual arrhythmias on telemetry.

Keywords

Artefactual atrial flutterportable media devicesarrhythmiaelectronic interference
Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 25 , Issue 7 , October 2015 , pp. 1375 - 1376
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Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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