Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hospital Equipment, Too

Dur­ing Ange­la’s stay in the Labor and Deliv­ery ward at St. Mary’s, we were required to turn off our cell phones at the doors to that par­tic­u­lar area of the third floor. Based on my pre­vi­ous edu­ca­tion in that cell phones real­ly can inter­rupt air­plane nav­i­ga­tion equip­ment, I did so with­out com­plaint. Well, it appears that that was a good idea, as evi­denced by a report released today in the online jour­nal Crit­i­cal Care (report­ed on here at Ars Tech­ni­ca). It sure was a pain to be in a com­mu­ni­ca­tions brown-out, but some­times it real­ly is for our own good.

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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

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