Hospital emergency room electromagnetic environment

Author

Davis, Don ; Skulic, Bojan ; Segal, Bernard ; Vlach, Philip ; Pavlasek, Tomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Otolaryngology, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

6

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

2543

Abstract

The electromagnetic environment of the emergency room of an urban hospital was estimated, characterizing electric fields over a 4.4-day period. Measured fields did not exceed 1 V/m over the 0.1-1 GHz range, but exhibited substantial day-night variation. Such temporal variation was characterized with respect to intensity and frequency of emissions. The observed field level variation implied a substantial temporal variation of electromagnetic-interference-malfunction risk to medical equipment. This risk tended to be highest during the daytime, early evening and weekends

Keywords

biomedical engineering; biomedical equipment; electromagnetic compatibility; electromagnetic interference; safety; 0.1 to 1 GHz; 3D plot; EMC issues; EMI-malfunction risk; day-night variation; electric fields characterization; electromagnetic environment; field level variation; frequency of emissions; hospital emergency room; intensity of emissions; medical equipment; temporal variation; urban hospital; Area measurement; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Concrete; Electric variables measurement; Electromagnetic measurements; Hospitals; Radio frequency; Spectral analysis; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.756848

Filename

756848