Using mobile phones near hospital beds or important equipment is dangerous and could switch off ventilators or disrupt pacemakers, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.
 
    荷蘭研究者上周四稱，在 醫院病床或重要設備附近使用手機是危險的，可能會讓呼吸器驟停或心臟起搏器功能紊亂。

    The University of Amsterdam researchers recorded nearly 50 incidents of electromagnetic interference from cell phone use in hospitals and classified 75 percent of them as significant or hazardous.Because of this mobile phones should come no closer than one meter to hospital beds and equipment, said the researchers."Critical care equipment is vulnerable to electromagnetic interference by new-generation wireless telecommunication technologies," they wrote.

    研究人員記錄了近50例在醫院里的手機電磁干擾事件，發現在醫院打手機有75%的機率造成顯著的或危險的影響。新一代無線通信技術電磁信號很容易就能影響到重癥監護設備。

    The study contradicts a study earlier this year from researchers at the Mayo Clinic who found that 300 tests over a five-month period turned up no noticeable interference with important hospital equipment due to regular mobile phone use.

    該項研究與美國梅約醫學中心今年年初推出的另一項研究剛好相反，梅約的研究人員歷時五個月進行了300次試驗，結論是使用手機不會對醫院的重要設備造成明顯干擾。

    The Dutch team——which tested 61 different medical devices—— found that most of the incidents stemmed from the latest General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) signal, a new-generation technology that allows things such as wireless Internet access.

    荷蘭研究人員測試了61種不同的醫療設備，他們發現大部分干擾都來自最新的通用分組無線業務(GPRS)信號，使用這種技術可以無線上網。