Re: [telecom] GSM-only interference [Telecom]

Wesrock 16 years ago

But the finger is pointing at GSM as the culprit. Though I realize

> the GSM interference isn't a life-threatening situation (hmmm, what
> about being in a hospital?), I thought consumer appliances are not
> supposed to be causing such interference.

I was in the hospital a few months ago and using my AT&T phone. So were many of my visitors. Others I have no idea what carrier/system they were using but I know some of them were ATM. Nurses and others called and answered calls all over the place.

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Richard 16 years ago

A couple of years ago, the hospital even let me use a cell phone in intensive care, recovering from a heart bypass operation, with lots of wires running from my chest to monitors. Nobody was concerned about interference. And as far as I know, there was none; at least no nurses came running into my room because of alarms going off due to cell phone use.

OT, ... Alarms did go off whenever I drifted off to sleep. The heart-rate monitor had a trip point at 50 beats/minute, and my heart rate drops to the mid-forties when I sleep (i.e., I hibernate). They changed the trip point to 40, and I got some good sleep.

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Thad Floryan 16 years ago

I would expect medical equipment, especially that used in a hospital, to be better shielded than the general run of consumer electronics. A Google search found this:

OT, ... Alarms did go off whenever I drifted off to sleep. The

40 is low. I have a pulse oximeter which I bought as a check on the automatic blood pressure thingie I occasionally use and I've never been below 60 or so.

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