However, routine household and workplace exposures cause no problems. Microwave ovens, TV remote controls, computers, GPS devices and home power tools, like electric drills are all safe. Cellphones are safe to use but it should not be kept within 6 inches of the ICD (like in a shirt ...
While the coding of all patient visits is considered routine in order to enhance quality assessment, there are no incentives for ICD coding in primary care. According to Swedish law [7], medical records must include coding of all health care contacts in hospital care but not in Primary Care....
The routine, like a memorized song, must be stored in a different part of the brain than the part involved with decision-making, fear, tentativeness, even perhaps common sense. (I always think of victims of strokes who cannot speak but who can speak or recite poetry.) ...
To establish CIED functionality prior to treatment and to detect a possible change in the pacing-dependency of the patient, it is recommended to examine technical CIED function if this has not been done within the past 3 months (routine CIED checks are usually performed every 3–6 months). ...
mats, taking down the Robert Pattinson calendar which hangs about the place my feet reach, and then too, the Tibetan Thangka which some embarrassed family member has hung over the Robert Pattinson calendar. This is a laborious operation, which does not fit into my daily speed yoga routine. ...
ICD patients underwent routine interrogation and follow up at Fuwai hospital. The primary endpoint of this study was all-cause mortality. The secondary endpoint was the occurrence of appropriate ICD shock as a substitute for SCD. Appropriate ICD shock was defined as shocks for ventricular tachycardia...