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RE: ionizing radiation and cardiac pacemakers

Ms Sirav
Please look at American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM) Report No. 45, "Management of Radiation Oncology Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers"
which also appeared in Medical Physics, Vol 21, No, 1, 85-90, January 1994.
 
If you need a copy, please let me know.

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024
 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Bahriye Sırav [mailto:bahriyes@med.gazi.edu.tr]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:53 AM
To: radsafe list
Subject: ionizing radiation and cardiac pacemakers
Importance: High

Dear RADSAFEr's,

RF (Radio Frequency) fields are being used for accelerating electrons in linear accelerators used in cancer therapy. These fields are also used for other therapeutic purposes with some medical instruments in the hospitals (such as diathermy units, MRI systems etc).
Among the radiotherapy patients, those carrying pacemakers are being exposed to ELF and RF non-ionizing radiation besides the ionizing radiation from the therapy units. 
I would be gratefull if you can inform me about  the effects of ionizing radiation on patients having cardiac pacemakers while they are having radiotherapy treatments.

With best regards,
Res Ass Bahriye SIRAV (MSc)

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Bahriye SIRAV (Ms)
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Gazi University Faculty of Medicine
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