[Edit] also, you should avoid ICDs if you are tin-foil-hat paranoid. Mine comes with a bedside telemetry monitor that reads data from the ICD every day and occasionally uploads it to the NHS mothership. The device-monitor RF protocol is proprietary and unpublished and the monitor has it's own 4G dongle.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_cardioverter-defib...
"""The device-monitor RF protocol is proprietary and unpublished and the monitor has it's own 4G dongle."""
1. All code funded by public money (NHS) should be FOSS by default. (I bet "security" has been mentioned in this defence)
2. My father had a similar device, and while he had an extra decade, I would far rather trust (his/my) life to open, reviewed code than what some person in some possibly dysfunctional company thought was best.
Anyway, I hope you don't set off any store alarms (yes my electronics groking might not be accurate) All the best.
The device is an Ellipse VR [0] produced by Abbott (formally St Jude Medical), and was not developed by the NHS.
> All the best.
Thank you, much appreciated.
[0] https://www.cardiovascular.abbott/us/en/hcp/products/cardiac...
'KineticLensman', is this of the directed energetic chemical decomposition variety?
Ha!
Actually, since you ask, the ICD delivers enough energy to launch a tomato 40m into the air (assuming I have done my unit conversions correctly, and ignoring the effects of air resistance).
