Abstract :
Electromagnetic compatibility in medicine involves ensuring that any possible interactions of electronic and electrical apparatus with people, and of people with electronic and electrical apparatus, shall not give rise to any malfunction, human or technical. Particularly as this might lead to a hazardous situation either through false bio-information in diagnosis and therapy, or through electric, magnetic or radiation interactions between the patient, operator or apparatus. The implications of such research over the past decade are that levels of EMR which are present in the environment, whether natural or man-made, can cause stress and contribute to illness in certain hypersensitive persons. By the time that such environmental illness has progressed to the stage of meriting a formal medical diagnosis, it may also have progressed to the stage of irreversibility; early diagnosis is essential. Not only can such persons be said to be incompatible with life in an electronic and electrical society, but they may emit levels of EMR which make them incompatible with certain electronics devices as presently designed
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biological effects of radiation; biomedical engineering; biomedical equipment; electromagnetic compatibility; health hazards; autonomic nervous system; electrical hypersensitivity; electromagnetic compatibility; environmental illness; hypersensitivity diagnosis; medical equipment;