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Department of Electrical and Power Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology , Krakow , Poland
Department of Electrical and Power Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology , Krakow , Poland
The aim of article is to discuss interaction between stents implanted in the body of worker and harmonic magnetic field in the vicinity of electric wires. In last decades, a growing proportion of people has any devices implanted, to list: cardiac pacemakers, cardioverter – defibrillators. Recommendations of International Commision on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), and resctrictions imposed in different states, may exlude specific individuals from their duties. The autors focused on the situation, when the employee with stent, works in the immediate vicinity of overhead electric wires, cleaning with dry ice the electric insulators.
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