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Cellphones May Interfere With Some Critical Care Medical Devices, Experts Say.

If energetic interference can occur with critical care equipment, just imagine what it is doing to the sophisticated energetics of your own body.

This adverse effects are being shown up more and more as EMR ElectroMagnetic Radiation is being recognised as the real and legitimate cause of disturbance and ill-health.

Dutch doctors today reminded hospital visitors to turn off their cell phones - for the sake of health, not etiquette.

The reason: Cellphones may interfere with critical care equipment such as ventilators and external pacemakers, report the University of Amsterdam's Erik Jan van Lieshout, MD, and colleagues.

With that in mind, van Lieshout's team supports the practice of  keeping cellphones at least a metre (about 3.28 feet) away from medical equipment or hospital beds.

That guideline "seems safe" but doesn't totally prevent the possibility of cellphones causing electromagnetic interference in hospital equipment, the researchers write.

They tested cellphones near 61 medical devices that weren't hooked up to patients.

In the tests, the cellphones caused 48 "incidents" in 26 devices.  A third of those incidents were hazardous, such as totally switching off and restarting a mechanical ventilator, completely stopping syringe pumps without setting off an alarm, and causing incorrect pulses in an external pacemaker.

Another 42% of the incidents were classified as "significant" but not hazardous.  Examples of significant incidents were incorrectly setting off an alarm or inaccurately monitoring blood pressure.

The remaining incidents were considered "light," such as disruptions of monitor displays that didn't require immediate attention.

The researchers note that their testing situations were "worst-case" scenarios.  But they argue that their findings support restricting cellphone use in hospitals to areas where electromagnetic interference wouldn't be a problem.

The study appears online in the journal Critical Care.

SOURCES:  van Lieshout, E. Critical Care, Sept. 5, 2007; online edition. News release, BioMed Central.

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Robert Jaques of vnunet.com on 06 Sep 2007

The study details incidents of electromagnetic interference from 2G and 3G mobile phones.  The Dutch research team examined the effects of GPRS and UMTS signals on critical care equipment such as ventilators and pacemakers.  Almost 50 incidents were recorded, 75 per cent of which were described as 'significant' or 'hazardous'.

Electromagnetic interference incidents also occurred at a greater distance with GPRS with a hazardous incident even at three metres.

Dr Erik van Lieshout, lead researcher at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, said: "Our work has real implications for present hospital restrictions on mobile phone use in patient areas.

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REUTERS CANADA

Thursday  6 September 2007

"Critical care equipment is vulnerable to electromagnetic interference by new-generation wireless telecommunication technologies with median distances of about 3 centimeters," they wrote.

The study contradicts a study earlier this year from researchers at the Mayo Clinic who found that 300 tests over a five-month period turned up no noticeable interference with important hospital equipment due to regular mobile phone use.

The Dutch team -- which tested 61 different medical devices -- found that most of the incidents stemmed from the latest General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) signal, a new-generation technology that allows things such as wireless Internet access.

Other malfunctions they attributed to electromagnetic interference included complete stops with no alarms in syringe pumps and incorrect pulsing by an external pacemaker.