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ID Number 969
Study Type Engineering & Physics
Model Mobile phone and radio exposure to medical devices and analysis of possible electromagnetic interference (Recommendations from the AMA)
Details

The American Medical Association (AMA) identifies wireless devices as a risk to medical equipment, especially when used in close proximity. The paper acknowledges that current clinical reports are largely anecdotal, and that the variety of communication signal and medical equipment types make EMI difficult to predict. They recommend obtaining (when possible) newer medical equipment “hardened” to extraneous RF emissions and performing ad hoc testing (ANSI/IEEE C63.18), simple management procedures, maintaining compliance with existing EMC standards, and ongoing vigilance against EMI by the clinical engineering group and medical staff at the hospital facility.

Findings Not Applicable to Bioeffects
Status Completed With Publication
Principal Investigator American Medical Association, USA
Funding Agency AMA, USA
Country UNITED STATES
References
  • Lyznicki, JM et al. Biomed. Instrument. Technol., (2001) 35:189-195
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