NCT01819896

Safety of Smartphones Among Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Deutsches Herzzentrum Muenchen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Over the past year smartphones have developed from a niche product to a commoditized product and are now squeezing classic mobile phones out of market. According to a survey a quarter of the German population is making use of a smartphone at present. An interference between smartphones and the functionality of pacemakers or implantable defibrillators is rather unlikely but cannot entirely be excluded. A systematic study regarding a possible interference between smartphones and modern pacemaker- and ICD-system with a better shielding against external influence has not taken place so far. In this study the investigators intend to investigate any interference between different smartphones produced by different manufacturers and diverse cardiovascular implanted electronic devices.

Conditions

• Recipients of Implantable Pacemakers or Defibrillators

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Pacemaker and defibrillator

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2013-03-28
• Last updated: 2015-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany