Hello list!
I have a relative with an implanted pacemaker/defibrillator who recently got a fitness tracker that has a magnet for attachment/alignment of the charging cord. There are warnings in the user manual advising against people with pacemakers using this product because of the magnets, which I assume are fairly strong rare earth types. I looked up the DoC for the tracker and the EM field human exposure standards EN 50663 and EN 62479 are listed on the DoC. My question is do these standards and the similar IEC 62233 give a reasonable assurance that a pacemaker would not be interfered with or are these standards purely concerned with biological effects on the human body only? I would expect the pacemaker to be immune to a certain extent if it is FDA listed and complies with IEC 60601-1-2. I don't know the model number of their device but I would expect them all to be similar. Do they need to send back their fitness tracker? Or is the warning just thrown in because the lawyers wanted it? Although products I work on need to meet these types of standards, I don't have much familiarity with these exposure standards because my products have never failed Regards, Dan ______________________________________________________ Dan Roman, N.C.E. Senior Member IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society <mailto:dan.ro...@ieee.org> mailto:dan.ro...@ieee.org - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com> _________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EMC-PSTC list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=EMC-PSTC&A=1
