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hi I have a question. why any patient w/ CIED who is going for surgery we switch off the device ?? is it because we use diathermy and it will ruin the device? thank you

I'm an ortho P.A who has worked one-on-one with a foot/ankle surgeon for 8 years. Early in my career, I noticed my surgeon bringing handwritten forms into the office every Monday. These were reports of the surgeries he had done the previous week, on which he wrote procedure codes that he had...