Brodlie Malcolm, Robertson Daniel, Wyllie Jonathan
Neonatal Unit, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
Cardiol Young. 2007 Jun;17(3):328-9. doi: 10.1017/S1047951107000443. Epub 2007 Apr 20.
The ownership of mobile telephones is now almost universal amongst the teenage population of the United Kingdom. Such telephones are a potential source of electromagnetic interference to medical equipment. We describe a case of troublesome interference with an electrocardiogram recording in a teenage patient whose mobile telephone was left switched on during a visit to hospital. This is likely to be a common reason for poor quality electrocardiographic recordings.