Telemedicine and eHealth research Unit, Health Institute Carlos III, C/Sinesio Delgado 6, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Health Phys. 2011 May;100(5):530-41. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181f0cad5.
A systematic literature review was carried out to study patient security and possible harmful effects, immunity and interferences on medical devices, and effectiveness and transmission problems in healthcare and hospital environments due to electromagnetic interferences. The objective was to determine already-reported cases of patient security, immunity of medical devices, and transmission/reception failure in order to evaluate safety and security of patients. Literature published in the last 10 years has been reviewed by searching in bibliographic databases, journals, and proceedings of conferences. Search strategies developed in electronic databases identified a total of 820 references, with 50 finally being included. The study reveals the existence of numerous publications on interferences in medical devices due to radiofrequency fields. However, literature on effectiveness, transmission problems and measurements of electromagnetic fields is limited. From the studies collected, it can be concluded that several cases of serious interferences in medical instruments have been reported. Measures of electromagnetic fields in healthcare environments have been also reported, concluding that special protective measures should be taken against electromagnetic interferences by incoming radio waves.
进行了系统的文献回顾，以研究由于电磁干扰，医疗设备的患者安全性和可能的有害影响、免疫和干扰、医疗保健和医院环境中的有效性和传输问题。目的是确定已经报告的患者安全性、医疗设备的免疫以及传输/接收故障的病例，以评估患者的安全性和安全性。通过在书目数据库、期刊和会议论文集中搜索，回顾了过去 10 年发表的文献。在电子数据库中制定的搜索策略总共确定了 820 篇参考文献，其中最终包括 50 篇。该研究表明，存在大量关于射频场对医疗设备干扰的出版物。然而，关于有效性、传输问题和电磁场测量的文献有限。从收集的研究中可以得出结论，已经报告了几例严重的医疗仪器干扰。还报告了医疗保健环境中的电磁场测量结果，得出的结论是，应该采取特殊的保护措施来防止传入无线电波的电磁干扰。
