Dr. Charles I. Berul This is Me

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1. 1. in.news.yahoo.com

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   Published on: 3/30/2008   Last Visited: 3/30/2008

   But kids and parents bring up this concern all the time, prompting us to do our own study," says Dr. Charles Berul, director of the Pacemaker Service at Children's.
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   "This provides reassuring evidence that should allay the fears of people using iPods and other digital music players," says Berul, the study's senior investigator.

2. 2. www.childrenshospital.org

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   Published on: 3/26/2008   Last Visited: 3/28/2008

   "Many of our pacemaker patients have iPods and other digital music players, and we've never seen any problem," says Charles Berul, MD, director of the Pacemaker Service at Children's.
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   "This provides reassuring evidence that should allay the fears of people using iPods and other digital music players," says Berul, the study's senior investigator.
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   Berul and colleagues are reassured by their own findings, but acknowledge that their testing was only short-term. "We can't conclude that it's completely safe to have an iPod right on top of the device for hours at a time," Berul says.

3. 3. www.childrenshospital.org

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   Published on: 4/28/2008   Last Visited: 5/10/2008

   The researchers, led by Charles Berul, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Children's Hospital Boston, analyzed data from 443 patients who received implants between 1992 and 2004 at one of four pediatric centers.
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   While such shocks aren't life-threatening, they are very unpleasant - "like being kicked in the chest," says Berul.
   
   One reason for the inappropriate shocks was that children often have spikes in heart rate that aren't normally seen in adults."Children are more active and get their heart rates up faster," Berul says.
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   Berul's team is working with device manufacturers to change ICD programming to minimize unnecessary shocks in children and to provide more durable, longer-lasting leads."Children are not an important market for device makers, but they are an important subgroup," Berul says.