Question: Are there any current safety alerts that I should know about? Rev. 03/03
Answer: Yes. Serious, sometimes fatal, complications resulting from mixing therapeutic procedures.
Inform anyone treating you that you CANNOT have any short-wave diathermy, microwave diathermy or therapeutic ultrasound diathermy (all now referred to as diathermy) anywhere on your body because you have an implanted neurostimulation system. Energy from diathermy can be transferred through your implanted system, can cause tissue damage and can result in severe injury or death.
Diathermy can also damage parts of your neurostimulation system. This can result in loss of therapy from your neurostimulation system, and may require additional surgery to remove or replace parts of your implanted device. Injury or damage can occur during diathermy treatment whether your neurostimulation system is turned ?on? or ?off.?
This alert was released by Medtronic, Inc. on May 18, 2001. If you have any questions, please contact Medtronic directly at 1-800-328-0810 or visit their website: www.medtronic.com
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