Medical device EMI: FDA analysis of incident reports, and recent concerns for security systems and wireless medical telemetry

IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1289-1291

  Witters, Donald ^a   Portnoy, Stuart ^a   Casamento, Jon ^a   Ruggera, Paul ^a   Bassen, Howard ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TELEMETERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS MEDICAL TELEMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0035786545     PISSN: 01901494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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