手機可能干擾醫療裝置

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如果您要住院,您可能需要將手機留在家中。根據發表在1月份的《梅奧診所學報》上的一項研究結果,手機會干擾心臟和肺部外部監測裝置的執行。在大多數情況下,干擾“在臨床上並不重要”——也就是說,它沒有妨礙資料的解釋或導致裝置故障。但是研究人員確實在測試的17個心肺監測裝置中的41%中檢測到了干擾,在526項測試中,7.4%被認為在臨床上很重要。

當手機靠近監測裝置最敏感的部位一到兩英寸時,干擾最為嚴重。在一個令人震驚的案例中,手機靠近機械呼吸機背面的通訊埠兩英寸導致呼吸機關閉並重啟。該團隊還在監視器上顯示的心電圖軌跡中觀察到與手機相關的干擾。研究人員表示,在手機和監測裝置之間保持約60英寸的距離可能足以避免裝置故障。

“在這些裝置的安全性得到合理證實之前,在重症監護室和手術室等患者特別脆弱的醫療電子裝置附近限制或禁止使用手機似乎是合理的,”梅奧診所的戴維·赫爾曼 (David Herman) 和約翰·阿本斯坦 (John Abenstein) 在一篇隨附的社論中寫道。他們補充說,考慮到發生干擾的距離,在病房或手術區域禁止使用手機將是一個適度的預防措施。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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