VTech SN6187 Abridged manual - Manual (Page 105)

Appendix
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Precautions for users of implanted
cardiac pacemakers
Cardiac pacemakers (applies only to digital cordless telephones):
Wireless Technology Research, LLC (WTR), an independent
research entity, led a multidisciplinary evaluation of the
interference between portable wireless telephones and
implanted cardiac pacemakers. Supported by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, WTR recommends to physicians that:
Pacemaker patients
Should keep wireless telephones at least six inches from the
pacemaker.
Should NOT place wireless telephones directly over the
pacemaker, such as in a breast pocket, when it is turned ON.
Should use the wireless telephone at the ear opposite the
pacemaker.
WTR’s evaluation did not identify any risk to bystanders with
pacemakers from other persons using wireless telephones.
Note: The CareLine
TM transmitter is a wireless telephone,
and it should not be used in the pendant form (hanging from
a necklace over the heart) by persons wearing pacemakers.
Pacemaker patients should use the CareLine TM product in
belt-clip form only.
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