Study: Cell phones help in hospitals (Cnet)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on January 30, 2006 
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Comments(0) The report, in February’s Anesthesia & Analgesia, doesn’t discount concerns that wireless communications can interfere, electromagneticly, with medical devices like life-support ventilators, monitoring equipment and intravenous infusion pumps. The risk of crossed wires occured 2.4 percent of the time during research. But that rate was much lower than the 14.9 percent risk of medical error from delayed communications.
[The article asks readers to consider this choice: electromagnetic interference or improved communication among doctors? Hmmm…BK]
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