Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis machines, researchers reported Tuesday.
The wireless systems send out radio waves that can interfere with equipment such as respirators, external pacemakers and kidney dialysis machines, the study said. Electromagnetic glitches occurred in almost 30 percent of 123 tests when microchip devices similar to those in many types of wireless medical equipment were placed within about 1 foot of the lifesaving machines. Patients were not using the equipment at the time.
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