NCT01369706

Safety of Screening Procedures With Hand-held Metal Detectors Among Patients With Implanted Cardiac Rhythm Devices

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 388 (actual)
• Sponsor: Deutsches Herzzentrum Muenchen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients with implanted pacemaker (PM) or cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) systems are restrained in daily life by possible electromagnetic interference (EMI). Case reports suggest EMI between PM or ICD systems and hand-held metal detectors that are intensively used as part of security screening processes in e.g. airport controls. The objective was to determine the safety of screening procedures for ferrous materials with regard to possible in vivo EMI between hand-held metal detectors and PM and ICD systems.

Conditions

• Electromagnetic Interference

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hand-held metal detector	2 different hand-held metal detectors: (1) PD 140 (CEIA S.p.A., Arezzo, Italy) and (2) MH 5 (Vallon GmbH, Eningen, Germany)

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-09
• Last updated: 2017-04-12
• Results posted: 2015-11-30

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Germany, Greece