Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-22 Thread Patrick Lawler
Interesting that this would come up. I just read an article in Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine that discusses the fields generated by anti-theft systems. You can see it at http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/01/016.html On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:45:12 + (GMT), tim.hay...@ge

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-21 Thread Brodie Pedersen
dical Inc. Plymouth MN From: "Price, Ed" To: "'tim.hay...@gecm.com'" , emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity Date sent: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:29:36 -0800 Send reply to:

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-21 Thread Price, Ed
emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity > > > Hi everyone, > > Except for "official" certification - it is not the standard that is > the most important. > > Consider the field strengths that the person (hence pacemaker) will be

Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-21 Thread Ray . Garner
Tim, If your friend is having the problems you state then one can say that the equpment is not suitable for the environment in which it is to be used. The thing to remember about the EC legislation that the use of standards is not the answer to everything, and meeting the standards does not e

Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-21 Thread tim . haynes
Hi everyone, Except for "official" certification - it is not the standard that is the most important. Consider the field strengths that the person (hence pacemaker) will be exposed to. Are the standards realistic or were they created to give a MINIMUM level of confidence to some authority? What

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-20 Thread WOODS
cy of 30 MHz. The electric field need not be investigated." Richard Woods -- From: Ned Devine [SMTP:ndev...@entela.com] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 2:29 PM To: 'plaw...@west.net'; EMC-PSTC Subject: RE: EN standard for pacemaker i

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-20 Thread Ned Devine
bject: Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity As an excerise, I tried to find the directive that this standard was harmonized under. I looked on the Europa site under the EMC, Medical Device, and Active Implantable Medical Device directives to no avail. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapp

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-20 Thread WOODS
C-PSTC Subject: Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity As an excerise, I tried to find the directive that this standard was harmonized under. I looked on the Europa site under the EMC, Medical Device, and Active Implantable Medical Device directives to no

Re: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-20 Thread Patrick Lawler
Sunning in Florida > > -- > From: Michael Taylor [SMTP:mtay...@hach.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:19 AM > To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Subject: EN standard for pacemaker immunity > > > Greetings all. > An issue came

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread Dick Grobner
.Paul (i.e. Medtronic, Guidant, St Jude Med) Good Luck -Original Message- From: jestuckey [mailto:jestuc...@micron.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:15 PM To: 'Michael Taylor' Cc: 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' Subject: RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity Contact

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread jestuckey
Emerald St. Boise, Idaho 83704 PH: (208) 363-5313 FX: (208) 363-5596 jestuc...@micron.com -Original Message- From: Michael Taylor [mailto:mtay...@hach.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 07:19 To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: EN standard for pacemaker immunity Greetings all

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread WOODS
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: EN standard for pacemaker immunity Greetings all. An issue came up that needs answers as soon as possible. Does anyone in the group know if there are any European standards covering pacemaker (and similar devices

EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread Michael Taylor
Greetings all. An issue came up that needs answers as soon as possible. Does anyone in the group know if there are any European standards covering pacemaker (and similar devices) immunity to Electric & Magnetic fields. A search of Global Eng. Documents product list proved fruitless. I'm sure th