TY - GEN
T1 - Risk-based EMC Approach in Hospital Environment
AU - Das, Mumpy
AU - Vogt-Ardatjew, Robert Andrzej
AU - van den Berg, Bärbel
AU - Leferink, Frank
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - A modern hospital has a wide range of medical devices that can be technologically very advanced and complex in terms of electromagnetic emissions and susceptibility. It is a public environment where people carry communication equipment and/or medical active implants. Therefore, electromagnetic interference among the devices in the hospital environment is not an unfamiliar topic. There is a misconception among engineers that if all medical devices comply with harmonized standards, then the installation of a large number of medical devices altogether would work absolutely fine. However, this is not always true, and so for complex systems, a smarter approach is necessary to assess and control the risks of electromagnetic interference. This paper emphasizes the importance of using the risk-based approach to deal with the often unpredictable factors causing electromagnetic interference in a complex hospital environment.
AB - A modern hospital has a wide range of medical devices that can be technologically very advanced and complex in terms of electromagnetic emissions and susceptibility. It is a public environment where people carry communication equipment and/or medical active implants. Therefore, electromagnetic interference among the devices in the hospital environment is not an unfamiliar topic. There is a misconception among engineers that if all medical devices comply with harmonized standards, then the installation of a large number of medical devices altogether would work absolutely fine. However, this is not always true, and so for complex systems, a smarter approach is necessary to assess and control the risks of electromagnetic interference. This paper emphasizes the importance of using the risk-based approach to deal with the often unpredictable factors causing electromagnetic interference in a complex hospital environment.
KW - electromagnetic compatibility
KW - hospital
KW - risk-based EMC
KW - rule-based EMC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091841715&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/riskbased-emc-approach-in-hospital-environment(c9086153-cee3-4a12-b54e-0a31ae09fc12).html
U2 - 10.1109/EMCSI38923.2020.9191637
DO - 10.1109/EMCSI38923.2020.9191637
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-1-7281-7430-3
SN - 978-1-7281-7431-0
T3 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal/Power Integrity, EMCSI 2020
SP - 676
EP - 680
BT - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal/Power Integrity, EMCSI 2020
PB - IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
CY - USA
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal/Power Integrity, EMCSI 2020
Y2 - 27 July 2020 through 31 July 2020
ER -