Cell Phones Interfere with Critical Care Hospital Equipment
While on vacation I visited a family member in hospital and was surprised when nursing staff requested that my companions’ cell phones be turned off and not used in the hospital room so they did not interfere with equipment. Today I took note of a related report in Science Daily.
According Dutch research published in the online open access journal, Critical Care, Cell phones should come no closer than one meter to hospital beds and equipment. Scientists demonstrated that incidents of electromagnetic interference (EMI) from second and third generation mobile phones occurred even at distance of three meters.
Article: “Interference by new generations mobile phones on critical care medical equipment,” Erik Jan van Lieshout, Sabine N van der Veer, Reinout Hensbroek, Johanna C Korevaar, Margreeth B Vroom and Marcus J Schultz, Critical Care (in press) .
