Interference to medical equipment from mobile phones
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology
- Vol. 21 (3-4) , 141-146
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03091909709031160
Abstract
Cellular mobile phones may interfere with hospital equipment. We irradiated five representative pieces of equipment using simulated phone signals and frequencies. Two (an oximeter and a syringe pump) were immune to electric fields of up to 40 V m−1. The most susceptible was a physiological monitor which showed effects at 10 V m−1. None of the equipment was affected by fields that could be produced at over one metre from a 2 W mobile phone.Keywords
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