Safety notice - ResMed and Philips masks with magnetic fasteners

ResMed and Philips recently updated the contraindications and warnings associated with certain masks for the treatment of sleep apnea, specifically those equipped with magnets.

This update aims to prevent a potential risk for people who wear a medical device or an implanted metal object. The magnetic field of the mask could interfere with these devices if they are located nearby.

Here are the contraindicated devices and implants:

• Pacemakers
  
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
  
• Neurostimulators
  
• Magnetic metal valves, electrodes, or implants in the upper extremities, torso, neck, or head
  
• Stents for the derivation of cerebrospinal fluid (e.g. ventriculoperitoneal bypass)
  
• Aneurysm forceps
  
• Metallic spirals for embolization
  
• Devices for the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysm
  
• Plates, screws, bit hole cover devices, metal bone substitutes
  
• Metal chips in the eye
  
• Eye implants (e.g. for glaucoma, retinal implants)
  
• Contact lenses that contain metal
  
• Auditory or vestibular implants with integrated magnets (e.g. cochlear implants, bone conduction implants, brain stem implants)
  
• Magnetic denture attachments
  
• Metal gastrointestinal tweezers
  
• Metallic endoprostheses (e.g. for aneurysm, coronary, respiratory, bile ducts)
  
• Implantable ports and pumps (e.g. insulin pump)
  
• Hypoglossal neurostimulators
  
• Devices not compatible with magnetic resonance
  
• Magnetic metal implants without magnetic field safety assessment
• Others
  

Only masks with magnetic attachments are subject to this notice. For patients who are not affected by these contraindications, masks with magnets remain 100% safe.