[MorganO]

It has been our policy to have sales representatives deactivate an internal cardiac defibrillator when cautery is anticipated during Endoscopy. The sales repres are no longer willing to come and provide this service. I was wondering how this is handled at your facility? Do you deactivate the ICD with a magnet during cautery and who does it?

[maxm]

In our institution, we are having a huge debate about this as well as pacemakers. our cardiology nurse has to interrogate these devices with in 2 weeks of the procedure and with some, we use a magnet.