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What is the current trend with use of mobile phones in the hospital? Has anyone had bad experience with equipment?
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See earlier thread(s). There has been nothing new since then. 
If you don't inspect ... don't expect.
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With medical equipment no, but with the office computer yes
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what happened to your office equipment Neil?
UMi-007
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This was some time ago, and the phone acted like a degaussing gun, affecting the colours. Not my computer I hasten to add.
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I leave my mobile on silent, when I'm at home, but close to my PC. I can here an incoming call before the phone starts vibrating by the noises eminating from the sound system connected to the PC.
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
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You can also eavesdrop on a seemingly dormant phone polling (and being interrogated) in similar fashion. But, it is only physics (not magic) after all. That is, radio waves are radio waves, whatever their frequencies. 
If you don't inspect ... don't expect.
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Has anyone had any recent updates on this? We are updating policies etc. Would be nice to have the most recent offical stance, althogh i cant find anything recent.
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Several month ago I had an interesting experience with mobile phone and ECG device. There was an incoming call during ECG was recording test signal from generator. RF interference caused baseline drift and pulsed noise.
Most faults were caused by doing the wrong things.
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better check your device's manual regarding RF interference, I think almost all manufacturers specify the effect of different RF bands and the req
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