Hospital emergency room electromagnetic environment

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...

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Published inProceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 'Magnificent Milestones and Emerging Opportunities in Medical Engineering' (Cat. No.97CH36136) Vol. 6; pp. 2543 - 2546 vol.6
Main Authors Davis, D., Skulic, B., Segal, B., Vlach, P., Pavlasek, T.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1997
Subjects
Area measurement
Biomedical engineering
Biomedical measurements
Concrete
Electric variables measurement
Electromagnetic measurements
Hospitals
Radio frequency
Spectral analysis
Voltage
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9780780342620
0780342623
ISSN:1094-687X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.1997.756848